Gen Z is Getting Dumber and That’s Hurting
the GOP — and America
Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 3/9/2026 4:12:51 PM
A troubling shift is unfolding within Generation Z (Zoomers), born between 1997 and 2012. It is not merely cultural or political. It is cognitive. In February testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath stated that Zoomers have become the first generation in modern recorded history to score lower than its predecessor. This was across key cognitive measures such as attention span, memory, reading comprehension, numeracy, problem-solving ability, and overall IQ. For more than a century, the trend had moved in the opposite direction. Each new generation typically scored higher on intelligence measures than the last.
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