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Re:Attention is all you have by ale42 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:19AM (#49800048)
> they also seem significantly smarter than older generations.

They seem or they are? In many places, statistically, they're actually NOT smarter. It's the other way around.

https://cepr.harvard.edu/news/2026/05/why-us-test-scores-are... https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/student-test-scores-read...

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Re:Attention is all you have by kushbhuwalka on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:24AM (#49841683)
must be availability bias on my end.

still though - newer generations must get smarter because the cumulative knowledge of society increases with time.

to your articles, i don't know if test scores on reading and math are necessarily good measures of intellect

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Re:Attention is all you have by ale42 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:21PM (#49860660)
Knowledge and intelligence are not the same, although there might be some link.

again today on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442

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