| ▲ | casey2 3 months ago | |
How come the only person who can ever seem to find conclusive research of this is Haidt? He really must head and shoulders above the lazy people in this field. The article you linked starts with a large graph, LOOK TEST SCORES ARE GOING DOWN. And Ironically just segues from that into their narrative, no deep thinking about the graph is done Is this a standard test? What are the variables here? Do you think adding countries could lower the average (8 countries have been added since the start of the graph)? Why did they choose to show the average in the first place and then completely drop the subject? Why does this graph start at 480? What kind of swing does 20 points represent on a test like this? Does the complete societal collapse of deep thinking result in a few extra wrong answers on a standardized test? Is deep thinking even rewarded in this test or is it outweighed by mechanical ability (singapore far and away at the top with reading being the largest gap at 27 points for the 2022 test)? Hey do singaporean children use smartphones [1]? From the generation taught without phones there seems to be a huge lapse in both critical and deep thinking skills. [1] https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/parenting-education/m... | ||
| ▲ | bayindirh 3 months ago | parent [-] | |
Sorry, I'll be using my lazy card here and give a concise answer, which you can extrapolate to find the answers to all of your questions. PISA is a standardized test conducted by OECD for International Student Assessment. It's homepage is located at [0], alongside with datasets for all previous tests, and plethora of material. So, you can download the data, look at the questions in any language you prefer, do your own analysis. I'll just reiterate that, my personal experience mirrors the article. Extreme reliance of smart devices and technologies like conversational LLMs reduce the cognitive ability and deep thinking capacity tremendously. Children and people become interfaces to these devices they use. They just delegate all their thinking to these devices and live a much hollower life. | ||