| Instead of voluntary dumbing down, there's a steady process of public self-enlightenment. |
| The ultimate result of dumbing down is not, as its champions would no doubt want to claim, the collapse of cultural hierarchy and privilege. |
| Nods to popular culture have brought inevitable cries of dumbing down but if anything they makes the quiz even more troublesome. |
| Change is dumbing down to the people who have an interest in what was there. |
| The reason why dumbing down and tabloid trivialisation is so widespread is that it works. |
| The use of propaganda during the Cold War, for example, led to the dumbing down of valuable political ideas. |
