Gen Z — The first generation officially
dubbed dumber than the last
New York Post,
by
Jeanne Erickson
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
2/7/2026 7:21:58 AM
Gen Z, this will smart.
The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist.
And shockingly, they are proud of it.
“They’re the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized academic tests than the one before it,” Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, 43, told The Post. “And to make matters worse, most of these young people are overconfident about how smart they are. The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are. “They underperformed on basically every cognitive measure, from basic attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function and general IQ.”
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Their teachers were too busy with indoctrination topics.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/7/2026 7:54:55 AM (No. 2065920)
One of the hardest jobs in society is being a Mensa recruiter.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 2/7/2026 7:55:22 AM (No. 2065922)
I was a teacher. Education is already dumbed down to a third of what it was when I was in school And now, Gen Z is even dumber than the already dumbed down curriculum? A lot of students have little academic support or encouragement at home nowdays. Cell phones in classrooms are not helping. School administrators are wussies and have no guts to stand up to dumb parents protecting their disruptive kids. `I could go on and on, but the best way for a student to get the best education is to get out of the public school system.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/7/2026 8:21:20 AM (No. 2065956)
If Democrats can convince them why can’t we??
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 2/7/2026 8:59:23 AM (No. 2065974)
There’s an Indianapolis reporter on X that has been posting videos of students leaving school to protest ICE. I’ve been replying with screen shots of how well or, more common, how badly the schools are rated using publicschoolreview.com.
I got curious and checked out our rural high school and I was shocked to see how stupid our country kids are too. It was a real eye opener.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 2/7/2026 9:05:23 AM (No. 2065977)
That's a dead give away to identify a leftist. People who think they are smarter than everyone else without any imperial evidence to back it up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Socio 2/7/2026 9:37:22 AM (No. 2065997)
I can not help but think this the coincides with the more chemicals, bio engineered, and genetically modified garbage in the food supply. That dwindling IQ's are not happenstance, they are being created.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Felixed 2/7/2026 9:38:12 AM (No. 2065998)
If you saw the movie "Idiocracy" when it came out, you might have had a good laugh.
Now, it isn't so funny. Is it.
When "comedy" becomes prophecy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/7/2026 9:41:18 AM (No. 2066000)
As I have commented over the years here and other blogs is that never before has so much information about any and everything been available to so many people and yet, we seem to keep getting dumber and ignorant by the day.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/7/2026 10:27:08 AM (No. 2066036)
I've been calling them Gen Zero for a number of years. Looks as if I've been right all along.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
m1n0uche19 2/7/2026 10:54:10 AM (No. 2066052)
If Johnny on "Primetime with Jesse Waters" is any indication, his interviews with these young people show they are completely ignorant of just about everything. No concept of history, math, current events. They all know who Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish are though. God help us.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimBob 2/7/2026 11:15:43 AM (No. 2066060)
First it was Television, now it's video games and TikTok 'influencers' on so-called 'smart phones'.
Leftist 'dumber-downers' from end-to-end throughout the education system also play a large role in this.
The smartest kids I see these days are the ones who have smart parents who home-school their kids.
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Idiocracy in the making. To think that was supposed to be a comedy.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/7/2026 11:42:48 AM (No. 2066080)
Go back and watch some old clips of Jay Leno doing 'Jay Walking' and you'll have the proof.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chumley 2/7/2026 12:27:03 PM (No. 2066108)
Every generation they get dumber. We were dumber than our parents' generation, and my kids were dumber than me. The very slight silver lining I've found is when we would get a new employee who had just done a hitch in the service, they were usually smart as whips. There were kids less than half my age teaching me about things I'd never heard of like computer algorithms and feedback loops. Where they lacked knowledge was how to operate the machines fully manually, and I tried to pass that along to them before I retired. And spelling. They cant spell their way out of a 3rd grade class. But it looks like the military may be making up for where the public schools failed.
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Proud Texan 2/7/2026 1:52:37 PM (No. 2066127)
#5 Why be surprised by how dumb country kids are? They are taught the same baloney that city kids are.
"The smarter people think they are, the dumber they actually are." One of my favorite sayings. I didn't know anyone was listening to me. Add on top of that, teachers telling students that they are smarter than their parents and they will believe any thing the school teaches.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/7/2026 8:00:07 PM (No. 2066199)
There are two distinct problems, teachers who don't want to teach because they get paid the same regardless and students who are not motivated to learn. Kamalala is depending upon Gen Z so I'm sure she has the solution.
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