But my anecdotal experience working with younger employees / interns has been an uptick in situations where they become “paralyzed” by a fear of making a mistake, coupled with the inability to ask questions / seek out help.

They’ll google, or use ai, but if that doesn’t deliver an answer instead of asking a co worker, they will sit on an issue until someone follows up with them.

There also seems to be a huge fear of submitting “something” that’s not good enough where the preference seems to be “nothing” if they’re worried it’s not good enough.

I notice this in organizations I’ve been in leadership roles, but also have had this expressed to me by a half dozen peers in other organizations.

Kids cannot speak and yet have access to tablet. Students cannot study without AI anymore. Teachers saying not even giving them the answer helps, they don't know what to do.

If you never watched the movie 2006 Idiocracy, do it!! It was supposed to be a comedy movie but sadly, it describes the world we are living right now.

You see it explained as the result of everything. Be it microplastics, mobile phones, immigrants, long covid, climate change (, stress about), social media, AI, glyphosate, 5G, the elders of zion, the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, something to do with late stage capitalism... everyone seems to have their personal landscape of theories as to why this is happening.

You can probably ask someone to enumerate what they think causes this dip, and use it as a pretty reliable embedding for their entire political worldview.

Using the US alone scores from 2000 to 2022 have not really moved.[1] They have fluctuated but in those 22 years the score is largely unchanged except in Mathematics where the US has declined. Dr. Horvath links to the 2015 PISA results, but screen time is not a part of that data. I got through the paper to this point and if they already faltering this badly then it's not worth my time to keep reading. Plenty of idiots and misinformed people testify before Congress. That doesn't make their statements empirically true and arguments right.

The sad part is the amount of people who will take it as gospel as it already conforms to their biases of children and technology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...

Standardized education is failing and doesn't fit the modern world. We need radically individualized education. By 2050 no student in the school system should speak the same language. There is no "correct" way to learn. We need, now more than ever, diversity of thought.

Trump is obviously untrustworthy because he keeps saying the quiet part out loud.

The rest of the government obfuscates untrustworthiness and elders love to drag youth as the source of moral decay in our society.

We are generally more educated these days though so "look at them eating avocado toast!" and straight up fear mongering won't cut it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105.amp

So they resort to unfalsifiable data. You all going to put the work in that would be required to refute this?

But if they insist on playing this game, OK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_deni...