1. What is the “paradox of the Dumbest Generation”? What is Bauerlein’s tentative explanation for the paradox?
The book “The Dumbest Generation” by Mark Bauerlein based on the idea of “paradox of the Dumbest Generation”. Throughout the book, he has a lot of researches, studies and data to back up his points, that young generation has more advantage in resources and technology than their previous generations, but they are not even smarter than them. At the beginning of the book, he describes young generations who achieve high SAT scores take Advanced Placement classes in high school, while joining sport clubs and doing volunteers in weekend. However, most of high school students do not do that much. They do not read,
