"Smartphones and streaming services seem likely culprits" in a catastrophic loss of life skills among younger Americans, said in the Financial Times . Troubling new data from the University of Southern California's Understanding America Study shows that adults in their 20s and 30s have grown increasingly careless, easily distracted, and less eager to honor commitments. Conscientiousness—"the quality of being dependable and disciplined"—in particular is in "free fall" among people ages 16 to 39, but other measures of the ability to get along with others are falling, too. Since 2017, neuroticism has jumped while agreeableness and extroversion have dropped. More Americans say they are easily distracted, and fewer think they are helpful or outgoing. After all the time we spend online, "rea

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