The dumber part is because of unions destroying the education industry. People leveraging the internet are much smarter than they would be otherwise. Give an average person 2 extra hours and an internet connection and they could ace the SAT.
Absolutely not true--libraries have been around that contain all the information needed to ace any test, yet the colleges don't graduate classes full of straight A students. The students that inspired my original comment had complete access to the Internet for their final reports and came up with sub-par work.
Acing one test would mean we graduated people who did just that--aced ONE test. Who would you rather operate on you, or fix your car or build your house--people who aced a test using the Internet, or people who had to go through the hard work that test ended up verifying?
This "The unions, the unions!" stuff is a separate issue. People who "leverage the Internet" are not smarter than they would be otherwise--being able to pick out things online doesn't mean one's smart, just that they can use the Internet. Nothing more.