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> but they haven’t slipped to where someone of average intelligence can graduate from a four year university.

I don’t know what you think intelligence is but I’m gonna say this is easily disproved by the number of dumb as dumbbells folks I see out there with degrees...

Truancy laws only get enforced in certain regions and vary on rules... I saw plenty of kids dropping out where I grew up.

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I strongly suspect you are dealing with a range restriction problem. Dumb and dumb for a university graduate are not the same.

Dumb for a university graduate: can’t do algebra

Dumb for a high school graduate: can’t divide a five digit number by a two digit number with pencil and paper

Dumb for the general population: can’t do arithmetic

This also depends somewhat on area of study, honestly.

Having majored in music (and picked up most of my technical skills just out of a habit for tinkering), my running joke was always that none of my classes required me to count past 32.

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