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True, but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England (lived all three so still follow the local news and seen stories about this in the last
by eddsolves 2y ago
True, but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England (lived all three so still follow the local news and seen stories about this in the last two weeks).
- Cumpiler69 2y ago>but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England Kids in rich countries have their brain fried from watching Cocomelon, Youtube Kids and Tiktok. They've been spawn-camped by ad-tech. Gotta get them when they're young.
- eschulz 2y agoI think many kids growing up today in developing countries also have their brains fried by the same ad-tech.
- Cumpiler69 2y agoKids in developing countries have pretty hard parents who beat productive values like education into them.
- runako 2y agohttps://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38 The US scores are relatively consistent going back over a half-century. TikTok and Cocomelon are not the culprits.
- Cumpiler69 2y ago[flagged]
- slaw 2y agoDo you think it is the same reason for Reverse Flynn Effect? IQ scores are dropping in western countries. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-iq-scores-decline-reverse-flynn-effect/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...
- peterfirefly 2y ago[flagged]
- Cumpiler69 2y agoYeah, but you can't say unpopular facts on HN, because it's offensive to the champagne liberals, so downvoted/flagged you go.
- peterfirefly 2y agoMy top-level comment hasn't been downvoted or flagged so things are getting better :)
- Aurornis 2y agoThe numbers have been going up as those things have been introduced, not down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318019 HN blames social media for everything, but this clearly isn’t it.