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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I dunno. I do find it interesting that the size of mobile phone keyboards is having an effect on vocabulary knowledge/usage of young people. But I don't think this is a measure of how intelligent the younger generation is. The older generation always find the younger generation lacking. We GenXer's were viewed as lacking ambition and ingrates.
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I agree with this. The youth of today are better at multi-tasking than their parents, and their knowledge of electronics and communications technology is superior, as well. The general intelligence level may not be a problem.
However, language is not one of these strengths. It is truly awe-inspiring how bad some fellow university students are at spelling and writing. If you based intelligence on language skills alone, the majority of kids today would seem like morons. Is this characteristic of people of a certain age, or simply of the world at large?