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Social media and mobile devices destroyed the ability to pay attention to anything for longer than 5 seconds. Of course that’s going to be reflected in test results that require close reading or anything more than surface level thinking.

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I hear a lot of people speculate this, but frankly we don't need a million people repeating this theory. We need a few scientists looking into it, and the rest repeating whatever the scientists conclude.

I have seen LLMs with more agency than this comment.

Finding a group of people that don’t use either isn’t going to be easy. Especially if you want a broad selection of age groups.

I didn’t see anything in the article about how it determined “average”. America had ~3 million illegal immigrants enter the country in 2023 alone. That’s almost 1% population growth from people who can’t speak English. I don’t see Finland dealing with this on such a massive scale.

That number is very wrong, so are you lying or are you mistaking border encounters for successful entries that result in growing the population?

3M may be a bit high but there has been an enormous increase in the illegal alien population over the past few years. As with any criminal activity it's difficult to get accurate numbers.

https://www.newsweek.com/illegal-immigration-costs-us-billio...

As to whether that could impact scores on this particular test, that seems highly speculative. We don't have any data to support such a claim.

Mass migration, legal or not, is changing the face of education in western countries. Australia gained 5% in the past 2 years, the size of another Adelaide. All stats will be distorted

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