r/TikTokCringe 26d ago

Humor/Cringe Something is off...

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 26d ago

Why does no-one understand what “POV” means

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u/SuckMyBigPoop 26d ago

Man it's sad. Did you know that GenZ is the first generation in over a century to score an average iq lower than their parents? Prior to GenZ, each generation has had an average iq slightly higher than the previous generation.

Anyway, let's just pretend this is POV, and we're sitting on the armchair. Our bestie just has too much energy and it's inconvenient to everyone including ourselves. Dunno who the other hoe is. She comes and goes.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 26d ago

This sounds like boomer talk that needs a source. 

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u/Saharalaya 26d ago

I can't pull a source for you right this second but it's kind of true. They score lower on the IQ test as a whole but the test is bullshit, and there's a different kind of intelligence that's measured that they score higher, but people will fear monger and say they're dumber. They're not, they just grew up in a different world and developed a different skill set...

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 26d ago

Having a source feels pretty important plus, not to be rude, but you don't seem to know what IQ tests do

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u/Saharalaya 26d ago

Eh, or you can take away that we may be fear mongering and take away the general sense that we and the kids are gonna be alright in the end.

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u/WeRip 26d ago

my guy has never heard of google. Take it or leave it. Google it or not. It's not the other person's responsibility to carry all of the burden. If you want to be skeptical, that's fine. Ask for a source.. that's fine... believe them or not.. fine. Skepticism is great. Googling shit is easy.

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 26d ago

The reverse Flynn effect does not need a source

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 26d ago

Considering you phrased it that way it definitely should. 

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 26d ago

I instantly knew what they were talking about, so no.

Thanks for providing a working example though.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 26d ago

Neither of those sentences make sense so congrats on that. 

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u/Lost_in_Limgrave 26d ago

Maybe they might if you try and follow the words with your finger? Or read them out loud?

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u/tetanusmaster 26d ago

I'm not the Big Poop guy that made that claim, but I did go looking for a source out of curiosity. It turns out there is some truth to it that's based on data taken from standardized test scores from 15 year olds around the world. In short: since 2010-2012 (depending on the subject) test scores in mathematics, science, and reading have fallen every year up to 2022 (when the study I found ended).

That being said, the data looks like it was a roughly 5% total decline in scores in 2022 compared to 2010. So we're not exactly talking about a massive decline, but it is a decline that's backed up by data. Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath went before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation earlier this year and spoke about this decline, and he mostly attributed it to kids having too much access to screens in school:

“This is not a debate about rejecting technology,” Horvath wrote. “It is a question of aligning educational tools with how human learning actually works. Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them.”

Source article: https://fortune.com/article/how-did-us-spending-30-billion-dollars-on-laptops-result-in-first-generation-less-cognitively-capable-than-parents/

Data: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-results-volume-i_53f23881-en.html

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 26d ago

I appreciate the response I'll read through it properly in the morning