Bruce Charlton, Professor of Theoretical Medicine at Buckingham and Editor in Chief of Medical Hypotheses, asks "Why are modern scientists so dull?" In a nutshell, I am suggesting that: Educational attainment depends on IQ × C [conscientiousness]; but IQ and C are not closely-correlated. Modern education has progressively raised the floor for C (by lengthening the educational process and by changes in educational evaluation methods). Educational attainment therefore nowadays increasingly re
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