I think you may have hit on an eye-opener here. I've wondered about this ever since Jay Leno started the feature on his show, "The Jaywalkers." They're mostly college students and, from their answers to Jay's questions, one would think they all lived in caves! Another indication of the "dumbing of America" is our experiences whenever we deal with the average employee in a large corporation. It's pretty obvious to me the problem is not a lack of intelligence, but is a lack of education. I don't know how this problem will ever be solved since our current uneducated students are our future teachers! The Pinellas 12 I think are just further proof of this condition in our country. (Is it the same in the world?)
bbm
Kinda ironic because the foreperson is a high school teacher, doing his on-line studies for a master's degree from his hotel room, and he was the one who seemed to have convinced the jurors to go with a not guilty verdict. He was supposedly well-educated, but yet he led the jurors down the wrong path. He coulda told any juror worried about cruises, deadlines, etc. to step out of the picture and let an alternate step in so that they could go through to the penalty phase. So either any dumb bunny can get a master's, or he thought he was "in it to win it" eg. grab the big pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Only problem was, he was too greedy to think about the consequences --public outrage and a beautiful little girl who was waiting for justice at the other end of the rainbow.