Teenagers are less intelligent than a generation ago, claims study

According to the results of the survey, the wisest 14-year-old boy in 2008 is comparable to the wisest 12-year-old child in 1976.

Researchers at King's College London asked 800 children of 13 and 14 to undergo a series of tests to deepen their understanding of abstract scientific concepts such as volume, density, quantity, weight I asked.

In the test called the pendulum test, it turned out that more than one tenth of the tests reached the highest level. This required a "higher level of thinking" which is a significant drop from one quarter of the 1976 result.

In the second test to evaluate the ability to think mathematically, one young man out of five in 1976 got a high score, but in recent research only one in two people was.

Professor Michael Shayar, who led the research, said: "The pendulum test does not require any scientific knowledge, which is how we treat complex information and solve the problem."

He thinks that the decline of mental power has occurred over the past 10 to 15 years, and as a result of national curriculum goals, such as children's tests and changes in children's leisure activities such as an increase in computer games and TV viewing I believe that.

Universal Communication Today, the average digital transmission rate of a regular teenager is ten times that of the previous generation, but the transmission rate of the previous generation is 100 times. More than a decade ago, scholars like Thurlow stated that "communication is indispensable" - humans are driven to maximize communication and satisfaction. Recently, researchers explain it as obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mobilizing excessive messaging totally realized this obligation. Once people connect to the Internet (eliminate volume restrictions) and express innovative expressions of rich media at high speed (images, videos, emoticons etc.), communication becomes almost free, GIF, filter). Messages are fast, inefficient, asynchronous, private, and relatively unobtrusive compared to voice and video.

First of all, youth culture was not so violent, indiscriminate, and more responsible. America's childhood is more secure than ever. Young people have less drinking and smoking than previous generations. The Millennial generation has fewer sexual partners than parents, and the birthrate of teens has declined by the age of 20. Violent crime - the temptation of young people - declined 25 years before the recent murder case by Ferguson. The possibility of youth participating in battle is half of the generation. Teen suicide, overeating, drug addiction - everything is falling

As long as automatic pornography is still a topic of prohibition, I will continue to claim victims, whether serious sex lovers or ignorant boys. In a rare article published 10 years ago in Vanity Fair magazine, a teenage son who passed away suicide asphyxia called it "the best secret in history". This is still a precise explanation

Many people doubted for a long time that this is an embarrassing fact - today's young people are less intelligent than they were before. According to the first authoritative study on this subject, my IQ of people born in 1991 averaged 7 points lower than the previous generation. This does not mean that you can not do it in traditional ways by communicating with angry faces and small images of smiling faces. And in the spirit of standardized testing, I went to Mensa's website to try their "online training" - quizzes, you have 18 questions to answer 18 questions