The Struggle to Dumb Us Down

After five years of schooling in a compulsory, um, Prussian based system, they retested the same students and only 32% after five years scored in the same range of creative genius. That's a significant drop. It is after five additional years of schooling, it dropped to a staggering 10%. Huh? By age 25, only 2% of the population remain as divergent thinkers, which is a complete reversal of the stats when they entered schooling. But if I'm not Thor, if, if we are dumb, how dumb are we? Oh, I'm so glad you asked before I answer your question.