'Nativos digitales': los niños con un coeficiente intelectual más bajo que sus padres

This 2020 feature in El Diario NY, a Spanish-language New York newspaper, is built around an interview with Michel Desmurget about the Spanish edition of his book on children's screen use. Desmurget contends that today's most screen-exposed generation of children is on track to test with lower IQ scores than their parents' generation — a reversal, in his framing, of the historical post-war rise in measured IQ known as the Flynn effect — and cites studies he discusses in his book associating heavier gaming and device use with lower grades, weaker memory retention, and shorter attention spans. The piece also relays his recommendation of no screens before roughly age six and strict daily limits afterward. TechKids includes this as a rare example of Desmurget's book and claims reaching a U.S. Spanish-language audience directly through interview coverage, distinct from his own written work.

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