And to not be unfair: lower IQ, or average IQ, but - untrained in thinking = dumbed down from an early age. Schools, universities and many parents are not teaching that any more. And universities are filling the timespan during which previous generations were educated formally, with surrogate "subject matters" and courses that mimick academic studies. Only the students are not aware of the lowered standard. And then, you get lots of graduates who will seem to be filling the same positions as earlier generations, but the thoughts and texts they produce come straight out of chat gtp. Ok, this is an exaggeration for clarification purposes, I'm not seriously wanting to insult entire cohorts here. But I think there may be a tendency.
And to not be unfair: lower IQ, or average IQ, but - untrained in thinking = dumbed down from an early age. Schools, universities and many parents are not teaching that any more. And universities are filling the timespan during which previous generations were educated formally, with surrogate "subject matters" and courses that mimick academic studies. Only the students are not aware of the lowered standard. And then, you get lots of graduates who will seem to be filling the same positions as earlier generations, but the thoughts and texts they produce come straight out of chat gtp. Ok, this is an exaggeration for clarification purposes, I'm not seriously wanting to insult entire cohorts here. But I think there may be a tendency.