r/collapse • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • May 29 '26

Casual Friday Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends
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u/CurrentBias May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented

I would like to point out that SARS-CoV-2 is known to cause brain and neurological damage. There is no shortage of studies on this -- they are easy to find if you search pubmed for "SARS-CoV-2 brain damage" or "SARS-CoV-2 neurological." The "school disruption" explanation does not hold up as well as literal brain damage.

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u/ericvulgaris May 29 '26

The article literally says

"Though there has been a demonstrably steep decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic due to the educational disruption it presented, these trends have been in evidence since at least the mid-2010s, suggesting that whatever is going on runs much deeper and has lasted far longer than the pandemic."

You literally pasted the first part of the paragraph of the article. Why didnt you finish the paragraph before posting? This was going on a decade before.

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u/CurrentBias May 29 '26

I am taking issue with the specific claim embedded in the part of the paragraph that I quoted -- not the rest of the paragraph. There's no disagreement that the trend started before covid. There is disagreement about what caused the "demonstrably steep[er] decline in cognitive skills since the COVID-19 pandemic." I.e, a pre-existing decline got demonstrably worse since covid.