"They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo."

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Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

— Steven Johnson