The 8th amendment has never once been applied correctly to any law.

The article states this effect is visible across 80 countries, which suggests its maybe less about policy, if true.

The article suggests strongly screens are responsible for this phenomena of ‘generational dumbness’. Intelligence is something extremely hard to measure but every kind of measure all going down at once is a good indicator something is going on.

There’s maybe less investigation into whether covid is a factor here, though that would seem a bit relevant as well, if only to rule it out. There’s no discussion if its a specific phone behavior that causes this.

I’ve heard of rural US homeschool kids entering their teens who can’t read or write.