{"id":316068,"date":"2026-05-11T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=316068"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:48:38","slug":"first-time-in-history-younger-generation-scores-lower-iq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/05\/first-time-in-history-younger-generation-scores-lower-iq\/","title":{"rendered":"First Time in History Younger Generation Scores Lower IQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>3 Feb 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\">For the first time in history, the younger generation has a lower IQ than the one before it. Neuroscientists are calling it a &#8216;cognitive catastrophe.&#8217; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ytAttributedStringHost ytAttributedStringWhiteSpacePreWrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"ytAttributedStringLinkInheritColor\" dir=\"auto\">From the death of the Flynn Effect to the rise of &#8216;digital dementia,&#8217; we break down the reasons cited behind the great intelligence reversal. Is it the cellphones, social media, AI&#8211;or all of the above?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Time in History Young Generation Scores Lower | Screens May Be Dulling Intelligence | Gravitas\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSuC-OvV9yI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Feb 2026 &#8211; For the first time in history, the younger generation has a lower IQ than the one before it. Neuroscientists are calling it a &#8216;cognitive catastrophe.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1733,1082,2637,2928,1006,2044,2423],"class_list":["post-316068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-cellphones","tag-intelligence","tag-iq","tag-social-media","tag-video-games","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316074,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316068\/revisions\/316074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}