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I Told the Senate Gen-Z is Less Cognately Capable – Here’s What the IQ Data Actually Shows

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Something unusual is happening to student cognition. IQ scores are declining, and the skills most affected are the very ones schools were designed to build. Why?

I Told the Senate Gen-Z is Less Cognitively Capable – Here’s What the IQ Data Actually Shows Something unusual is happening to student cognition. IQ scores are declining, and the skills most affected are the very ones schools were designed to build. Why? Jared Cooney Horvath Feb 06, 2026 233 31 59 Share Several weeks ago, I was asked to testify before the U.S. Senate about the impact of educational technology on learning. The very first sentence of my testimony was deliberately candid: “Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, that claim travele

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I Told the Senate Gen-Z is Less Cognately Capable – Here’s What the IQ Data Actually Shows

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