[Official] "Downfall of America," "mental health monitoring," "general crackhead activities" thread

I'm concerned with the trends in testing statistics from NCES / NAEP. We're seemingly in a national cognitive free fall post covid, and have been in decline since our peak in the early 2010's. Children and adults. Technology, societal trends, covid, other environmental factors, a combination?


adults


8th graders


This honestly scares the **** out of me. Anecdotally, outside of nationals trends and stories, I've seen numerous people amongst family and friends struggle with mental/cognitive/emotional issues over the last 5+ years. I sometimes wonder, are we all going r****ded?

 

Future DNC Chairman and master strategist.

 

I'm pretty sure there are a few already

 

Didn't it bounce back already? Or on the way back?

(going back to the 70s isn't that bad)

 

No, not that I'm aware of. Data is from https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ and https://nces.ed.gov/


US life expectancy and educational/cognitive ability statistics peaked between 2012-2014.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2019/fig01-508.pdf

 

Look to your own mental health. By request.