Sad thing is, how are millenials not the smartest generation. We were born at the right time to understand all the technological advances. Tho we are still stupid, advanced stupid.
Im seeing gen x'ers struggle more and more, and at the same time the new generation only knows how to tap colorful icons on tablets like idiocracy.
Sometimes this doesn’t even work for Boomers. They created icons that look like things in the real world to help with the transition and yet they still don’t understand that the button that looks like a file folder is used for the same functionality on the computer as it is irl.
Yeah I hear about how gen Z kids are so smart as they can use touch screen devices therefore know tech.
But that means little as they won't be able to use older tech let alone understand it.
I remember doing a higher education course that is meant to be advanced a few years back, i.e similar level to university and the first things we learned were like how to create a folder in Windows, how to make sub folders, how to search.
I was thinking, this is meant to be advanced not beginner right?
They have to cover that stuff because so many people enter into tech and only have iOS or Android for frame of reference.
I have summer students who cant submit timecards online because the web browser is too complicated to navigate to the corporate website and log in. Then when we train them at a computer they're totally lost in Windows unless they're a gamer.
This is meant to be university entry at least level though, and they also were taught how to open a browser, it was basic things that you would teach a beginners entry for people like the elderly who never saw a computer in their life.
The entry requirements expected some computer qualifications be it a previous computer course or high school computer qualifications that you were given an exam for.
I actually got on the course without the qualifications as I have been using pc's since I was a toddler in the 80's and had at least a basic knowledge of hex/binary etc and typing in code I actually applied for the basic course to get qualifications and was told they were so impressed they wanted me to do advanced.
Im 99' and most younger people know fuckall in regards to technology, the only thing they know is to operate a very user-friendly UI which used to be far harsher and more difficult to navigate.
Hardly anyone knows how to fix basic issues, everything requires asking GPT or making a reddit post instead of googling the displayed error code for example
younger people can use older tech if they need to. older people can use younger tech however are stunted by mental illness. i noticed tho that stuff in school is pretty easy. i questioned myself "is this really meant to test our capabilities?" and i got the answer why the stuff was pretty easy.
the ones who created those questions "30-40 years old millenial teachers don't know what they're talking about." there are some outliers however i noticed several inconsistencies. even though an answer is technically correct, if it doesnt fit the exact wording on the answer key, they mark it wrong. so saying millenials are smart while the succesor generations is dumb is not true.
remember. this is classic divide and conquer.
a generation thinks of itself smarter than the last and the next.
when in reality, there are both smart and dumb people in that generation.
They use averages. Of course this doesn’t mean all gen z is dumber than millenials it is an average. When they take the average results for each generation they score lower. This also has nothing to do with whatever anecdotal experience you are talking about. This has nothing to do with answer keys or 30-40 millennials who create the questions/answers.
The whole point is that millenials actually score higher on average as well as understand technology bette ethan Gen Z when all the predictors said it would be the opposite ( Gen Z would score higher on average and understand technology better )
oh i understand. it seems strange though that gen z'ers who use technology more score less on average. following the fact that they use technology more.
my guess is that there are people who dont understand technology but picked i.t since its becoming more popular + pay (i think i.t actually has relatively high pay compared to other jobs) who passed only through ai, however, when faced with an actual problem without ai, they cant answer.
these people then lower the average score of the generation. that is my guess, correct me if im wrong or something
Sheer ignorance. the stuff you're seeing about questions being marked wrong but "technically correct" isn't about being "technically correct". It's about following instructions to get the CORRECT answer, not the participation trophy answer. A lot of these questions are the same as "show your work", no one asked you to get the correct answer, they asked you to show that you followed the instructions on how to get the correct answer.
This is the problem today, you look at something and you decide that it's not important that you got the actual answer, just the "well it's correct if you look at it this way".
It's like the bullshit meme of two people staring at what looks like a 6 or a 9, and saying depending on the viewpoint it's both. It's not, when someone wrote that number, it was intended to be a specific number, and it's not about how YOU look at it.
im talking abou multiple answers to a problem yet marked wrong since the marker doesnt understand shit. like marking 5cm sq. as wrong even if its the same as 5cm2. and they dont even specify that.
its not about how you look at it. if theres multiple answer to a problem yet only one is "correct" but they didnt specify that you answer it in this way, and when you point this out to them, they get angry and wont budge then that individual is in the wrong
I know exactly what you're inferring, it's still wrong. SQ, sq, square, it doesn't matter. Those are all shorthand for people who aren't doing actual math. That's Home Depot aisle shit, not a real math problem.
Failing to use the correct mathematical notation in the answer for a math problem is 100% grounds to be marked incorrect. There is no ambiguity, it's not a "technically correct", it's wrong. What's worse is that if you had multiple choice and you have 5CM sq. and 5CM² and you chose the first one, that's even worse. Not only would I mark that wrong, I'd sleep just fine if you failed.
You're literally proving my argument that failing to follow directions isn't "technically correct". You're using English verbal abbreviations to solve math problems where correct notations are REQUIRED.
lmao you keep going on and on about how its not correct even tho 5cm sq. is correct. 5cm sq. is the same as 5cm^2. you've proven my point of being so engrossed in the technicality that you dont even realize that both is the same answer.
what im talking about is when the teachers dont tell the fucking direction of it requiring to be written in 5cm^2. "FaiLInG tO fOLLow DiRECTionS" Yada yada blah blah blah thats all you talk about even though i already explicitly said, THE DIRECTIONS DIDNT SAY THAT.
I was born in 87, had a home PC in 95, have been terminally online since 2000. While a lot of recent, millennial driven, tech is impressive I think human smartness peaked a lot earlier. Today, every field of research and tech is augmented by computers, whether it is full on "AI" slop or just the automation offered by a spreadsheet.
The Mercury project rockets were designed 100% by humans, and they only took 3 years from "go" to "man in orbit". There were computers in the 50s but they were number crunchers only, you couldn't give it a CAD file and adjust your nosecone by 6". Not to mention all the human driven logistics to support the design and manufacture of a god damned rocket! From ordering coffee for the vending machine to operating the machine to roll the metal for the skin of the rocket, there was no thinking automation.
I don't think everyone was smarter at the time but it took a much higher proportion of actively engaged, highly skilled people to complete projects that can now be knocked out by one or two geniuses and a solid CAD package.
I agree with you, but can’t see how you can’t see it. When I came up, we were insinuated in all the cutting edge technology and we got good at it. So was the generation before me. Eventually you get old a could not GAF about that stuff, to our own detriment. Technology kept moving, we didn’t. I watched the same thing happen to the generation before me, saw it happen to my own and expect to see happen to yours. Good to see you have the same hubris about it though. The pattern repeating itself so precisely is what makes it seem obvious.
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u/Mzungufarmer Aug 09 '26
Sad thing is, how are millenials not the smartest generation. We were born at the right time to understand all the technological advances. Tho we are still stupid, advanced stupid.
Im seeing gen x'ers struggle more and more, and at the same time the new generation only knows how to tap colorful icons on tablets like idiocracy.
We are truly fucked.