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They did not in fact find that the shorts are making you dumber. They said it affects your attention span.
Ironically I found this out in the first sentence of the article and then stopped reading.
Wouldn't the knock-on effects of a reduced attention span pretty much look like 'dumber'?
Intelligence is intelligence you can't reduce it by watching cat videos
Sure, but "being dumb" isn't an exclusive club for people with low intelligence. There plenty of very smart people that are also dumb. Hell, most AIs could be classified as smart but dumb.