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News of the century: Children are less intelligent than their parents

2024-01-16 19:56:21Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
News of the century: Children are less intelligent than their parents
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The Intelligence Quotient (IQ) is the most well-known and widely used parameter to measure people's intelligence, especially in the Western world. Thanks to James Robert Flynn's studies between 1938-1985, a significant increase in population intelligence was observed throughout the industrialized world.

It was called the Flynn Effect. But since the early 2000s, there has been a reversal of this trend. So the intelligence quotient in industrialized societies has begun to decline, to such a disturbing extent that the new phenomenon has received another name: the Flynn counter-effect.

In short, we can say that for almost 10 years, children are less intelligent than their parents. Various causes such as genetics, food, pollution have been hypothesized for this negative development.

In 2018, a study titled "The Flynn Effect and Its Variation Are Both Environmentally Driven", Bratsberg and Roberger, experts at the Ragnar Frisch Center for Economic Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, confirmed that the causes of the Counter - the Flynn effect has been identified more in environmental factors.

But what are these environmental factors?

One of the main ones, whose condition is alarming, is the impoverishment of the language. We have known for some time, thanks to many studies, how much thought and the ability to think are connected to language.

Language is the main means of mental processing and its food is memory, which anyway diminishes on its own if there is no continuous mental processing of the information being stored. In short, a circle that is not only vicious but also reductive.

In fact, the impoverishment we are seeing is not only related to vocabulary, that is, to the amount of terms we use, but above all to the disappearance of language processing, such as the loss of verb tenses and modalities. The adverb and the conditional are increasingly obsolete and wrongly omitted.

While the imperfect, the participles, the compound futures... so the action is almost always reduced to the present, simplifying the thought to a very persistent "here and now", and eliminating any projection, hypothesis, imperfection and therefore growth.

Losing the adverb, whose purpose is to express a doubt, an uncertainty, a hypothesis, we lose the thought of possibility, of incentive, of motivation. And by losing the conditional, the way that indicates the condition that must be met for an event to occur, we lose the ability to perceive and conceptualize the limit, and to accept that our condition is indeed limited.

By losing the participle, we lose indeterminacy, just as by losing imperfection we lose the "forever" that has always prompted man's grandest thoughts and deepest reflections. The linguistic complexity we are losing leads to a regression to earlier levels of evolution.

So the loss of language leads to an involution and not an evolution. If we lose the complexity of thought we return to normal action, but if we lose the ability to communicate and explain, we return to aggressive action.

Perhaps the reason for the rise and use of violence lies in this: if we cannot release the tension by communicating it to others, if I cannot speak to show my reasons... then the only thing left for me to do is to attack the other.

In these conditions violence appears everywhere and it is understood that the first part of any psychotherapy is now devoted to the recognition of emotions. So learning how to describe what you feel inside, but also what you want, what you would do if you knew the circumstances better, etc.

So today psychotherapy seems to undertake this commitment, devoting itself to an expressive therapy, which tries to rehabilitate this great degradation, which is probably also among the main causes of the serious events that feed the black chronicle.

Let's start this work where we stopped once, where we were, and let's imagine where we will be, conditioned by an "if" we will be, and then we can be who we once were.

Source: Huffpost.it


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