President-Elect is smart, but his early-60s birth cohort isn't
(NEWSER) - Barack Obama is a pretty smart guy, but his generation—the strange, in-between group born from the late 1950s to mid-1960s—is, quantitatively, the dumbest on record, writes Neil Howe of the Washington Post. Sometimes called “Generation Jones” or “early Xers,” this group nabbed the fewest educational degrees, fewest professional jobs, and lowest standardized test scores. More»