The Death of Critical Thinking: How Stupidity Took Over

Society is getting dumber. >> Chimpanzini.

>> Sorry to be so Shalong. It's just you got a level 10 g. No glaze. >> IQ and critical thinking skills are in freef fall. Young people don't want to go to school anymore. And Hollywood is actually making a movie about Skippidity toilet. I fear that we as a generation might be cooked and what we're witnessing could

be the slow death of human intelligence. What happens when an entire generation of humans don't develop critical thinking skills? And how will our society cope in a world where dumb people make all the decisions? To figure it out, I spoke to the researcher who literally invented the idea of measuring our attention spans,

the professor who led the charge against chat GP cheating, and the MIT expert who's trying to understand what AI is doing to our brain. And what I discovered was that the problem is not as simple as you might think. And the solution is even more difficult. >> You know, tornadoes don't care if you

believe in them or not. They're going to level your house anyway, right? Pathogens don't care if you believe in them or not. You're going to get sick. [Music]

So, first things first, are we really getting stupider? It's so easy to be cynical and say the world is devolving into a real life idiocracy. But actually, it turns out there is evidence. You might even say proof, and it's pretty dramatic. Starting in the 1930s, for half a century, America's IQ rose steadily yearover-year, this