Speeches from US presidents have gotten dumber over time
https://www-newz.blogspot.com/2014/10/speeches-from-us-presidents-have-gotten.html
Vocativ analyzed over 600 presidential speeches in US history, measuring syllables and keeping track of word and sentence count to determine the Flesch-Kincaid reading level of each speech. In the beginning, presidential speeches were at the level of a PhD, now it's at the reading comprehension of a 7th grader.
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