Cognitive Skills Declining Across Age Groups, Assessments Show
By
Noor Al-Sibai
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Summary
The article reports on declining cognitive abilities across age groups, citing Financial Times reporting on benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults. Assessments show people are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills. The piece suggests this is a measurable trend rather than just a perception.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledNo, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be.
Assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble concentrating and losing reasoning, problem-solving, and information-processing skills
These results are gleaned from benchmarking tests that track cognitive skills in teens and young adults.
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