is doomscrolling actually net bad for you? it seems that younger generations (gen alpha) spend disproportionately more time doomscrolling / being iPad kids, but they also seem significantly smarter than older generations.
this might be the correlation causation fallacy, but it seems to me that combining micro-pieces of reality though a continual stream might actually have net positives on information.
kushbhuwalka · · focus · HN ↗
this might be the correlation causation fallacy, but it seems to me that combining micro-pieces of reality though a continual stream might actually have net positives on information.
ale42 · · focus · HN ↗
They seem or they are? In many places, statistically, they're actually NOT smarter. It's the other way around.
<a href="https://cepr.harvard.edu/news/2026/05/why-us-test-scores-are-generation-long-decline" rel="nofollow">https://cepr.harvard.edu/news/2026/05/why-us-test-scores-are... <a href="https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/student-test-scores-reading-math-us/" rel="nofollow">https://time.com/article/2026/05/16/student-test-scores-read...
kushbhuwalka · · focus · HN ↗
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
ale42 · · focus · HN ↗
again today on HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857442