• partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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    There doesn’t seem to be any sign of it.

    I can come back with DOIs if you’d like to read up on the topic.

    It would strongly help your point if people weren’t on average much better educated than at any time in our history.

    Hardly. They can both be true.

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      1 month ago

      The “People today are dumber than ever” is such an old tired trope. Every generation has said the same thing. Kids these days are stupider than we were, people today are just less educated, blah blah blah.

      If it were true then the entirety of humanity by now would be unable to function.

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        I didn’t even entertain that argument, so I’m not sure why it would be relevant. Education being better today hardly matters for what I said.

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          Then I have no idea what you’re on about since that was the start of the entire conversation.