1 thought on ““Linguistics, Style and Writing in the 21st Century – with Steven Pinker””
This is fascinating, however there’s practical means to show that while the complaints are always there- we have evidence to demonstrate that in the case of today we truly ARE a dumber generation. (I recommend the book btw).
One other example was a professor who found an essay written by a student in the seventies. He marked it today, and went and hunted out the marks he gave back then, and the mark he gave today was fully 15% higher than the mark he gave then. He checked others and found similar findings. We’re marking easier because the students are poorer.
This is fascinating, however there’s practical means to show that while the complaints are always there- we have evidence to demonstrate that in the case of today we truly ARE a dumber generation. (I recommend the book btw).
One other example was a professor who found an essay written by a student in the seventies. He marked it today, and went and hunted out the marks he gave back then, and the mark he gave today was fully 15% higher than the mark he gave then. He checked others and found similar findings. We’re marking easier because the students are poorer.