Since 2013 bottom 25% students doing worse, accelerated by COVID
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/low-performing-students-reasons.html
“[bottom tier] Adults have also been struggling with literacy since 2012 …”
I believe it is the tech, especially smartphone. The constant distraction, but also the difficulty the bottom quartile has working with the tech that schools require them to use. #massdisability
Women don’t marry down. Mothers vote based on distress of their sons.
And so we have the global crisis of democracy. #massDisability (2/2)
I've been ranting about #massdisability for over a decade, but soon it will become inescapably obvious.
(Mass disability is when the cognitive requirements required to maintain a traditional "middle-class" existence approach the limits of the average human mind.)
So I asked about #massdisability and middle-class existence become inaccessible to Americans with IQ lower than 90-100.
Of course the AI agreed. (https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-do-you-think-of-the-claim-7V3tr_drTSSZqfBZevfHzw#0). Oddly it suggested AI was part of the answer ... (jk. only sort-of).
I cannot rule out the possibility that the AI is basically running an intellectual scam here.
Mass disability - dysfunctional web sites, apps for everything
https://notes.kateva.org/2023/08/mass-disability-dysfunctional-web-sites.html
A recent Michael Tsai roundup made me revisit an old topic -- how tech and complexity is disenfranchising everyone with an IQ under 110 or so. #massDisability
Tsai survey: tech complexity disenfranchising all but the cognitive elite.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/08/30/no-app-no-entry/
It's not really an Old thing, it's a cognitive skill thing. About 50% of Americans have been left behind. It's going to get worse. #massDisability
At Denver Zoo there’s an app rather than paper map. Advantage for some, ok for most, disenfranchising for 1/3 of humanity. #exponentialComplexity #massDisability
Continued from prior post.
4. Spot the scam behind app and avoid it (eg find at minimum)
5. Diagnose why after paying money and confirming machine it’s still not working
6. Authorize specific transaction
7. Start laundry.
(My son could not do this)
8. When complete delete app.
IQ requirement: minimum 110, higher to spot the scam.
This is why America is burning.
