Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture. Originating...

sensationalist topics. Critics argue that popular culture promotes a "dumbing down" of society, exemplified by: Newspapers have increasingly emphasized...

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (ISBN 086571231X) is a non-fiction book written by American teacher and political communitarian...

in Bath, Maine. Iserbyt is known for writing the book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. The book describes how the changes gradually brought into...

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Dumb and Dumber To is a 2014 American buddy comedy film co-written and directed by the Farrelly brothers. It is the third film in the Dumb and Dumber...

Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Peter Farrelly, who cowrote the screenplay with Bobby Farrelly and Bennett Yellin. It...

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Overly simplistic and repeated communications of the message are seen as dumbing down and can meet with the cynicism of the electorate. Party line (politics)...

damage" from the well-documented academic and social "erosion" known as dumbing-down. In other words, the SAT math questions progressively eased in difficulty...

claimed that avant-garde and modernist art was a means to resist the "dumbing down" of culture caused by consumerism. The term "kitsch" came into use in...

only in others." In 2000, British publisher Imprint Academic published Dumbing Down, a compilation of essays edited by Ivo Mosley, grandson of the British...

going to listen carefully" and in the latter cases that he was "not dumbing down but smarting up" the programmes. By 2004, Radio 3's programming and services...

magazine folded. Tapper, Jake (July 3, 2005). "National Lampoon Grows Up By Dumbing Down". The New York Times. "J2 Sells Lampoon Film Rights". Newswatch. The...

USA Today is also critical, describing the show as anachronistic and "dumbing down" history for the sake of entertainment. Women in Power While Reign mainly...

used within the field of computer science to refer to a technique of "dumbing down" computer programs in order to deliberately introduce errors in their...

conjecture and that Robert Winston, or the programme as a whole, were dumbing down the science or "patronising" viewers. Some viewers found the hominin...

Schuster. p. 254. ISBN 978-0684859071. Bloom, Harold (September 24, 2003). Dumbing down American readers. {{cite book}}: |newspaper= ignored (help) Bloom, H...

Olympics" and several non-academics had similar criticisms. Crab mentality Dumbing down Law of Jante The Marching Morons Procrustes The Starlit Corridor Tall...

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A video was made for a fourth single from the album, the closer "The Dumbing Down of Love", directed by Joel Peissig (who later directed Heap's solo video...

Retrieved 2021-10-02. Black, Edwin (April 12, 2010). "Wikipedia—The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge". The Cutting Edge News. Archived from the original...

Dumb and Dumber (also known as Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series) is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera and New Line Television for ABC. It...

14, 1978. Tapper, Jake (July 3, 2005). "National Lampoon Grows Up By Dumbing Down". The New York Times. "Death Ruled Accidental". The Vidette. Vol. 93...

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Wayback Machine, ISBN 0415323770, 9780415323772 Fahs, Breanne (2020). Burn it Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution. Verso. pp. 3–7. ISBN 9781788735407...

Mosley's first work of non-fiction, Dumbing Down, a collection of essays and interviews on the concept of dumbing down, was published on Imprint Academic...

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Retrieved December 19, 2015. Swift, Johnathon (January 10, 2014). "Dumbing down". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved...

formation in the Christian life. Her 1995 book, Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for the Turn-of-the-Century Culture, which urged...