The positive statistics may not end the perennial debate over whether A-levels have been "dumbed down".
From Moore's first film Live and Let Die in 1973, violent death was dumbed down.
Over recent years, critics have said A-levels are being "dumbed down", with grades continuing to rise.
That growing success, naturally enough, brings the accusation that literary festivals have dumbed down.
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Michael Howard says some people think that exams have been "dumbed down", others that pupils have got smarter and teachers better.
The recipe may be dumbed down for cookbook readers, yet it is served atop a complex dish of marinated giant scampi.
Margins squeezed, costs rising rapidly, brands dumbed down and stock prices unexciting.
Today, "expert mode" still exists, but even it is being dumbed down.
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Any politician who felt that the news was indeed being dumbed down would have a mighty hard time doing anything about it.
And even the iPhone has been dumbed down for the U.S. market.
Even Norman Pattiz, the former BBG member who dumbed down international broadcasting and replaced it with popular culture, is discontented with Al Hurra's new direction.
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The great negative is that if you go too far and make an absolute fool of yourself, you actually, you've dumbed down the whole thing.
Finally, just as a bonus, if Goldman is not about appareances or lies why do you choose to call a fourth year dumbed down sales man a VP?
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Critics lambast 30 second commercials as simplistic and dumbed down.
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Promise has purposely dumbed down this particular 1TB or 2TB NAS to make it suitable for use in any home where a "zero configuration" storage and media streamer is the priority.
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Sky digital viewers are able to vote for the "brainiest" contender - that is, the one who they think looks the most brainy at the start of the show (I did say it had dumbed down).
"More projects get made, more material is available, but a lot of it is dumbed down for the general audience, and the intimacy of fan-run conventions is now almost a thing of the past, " he said.
The former chief inspector of schools in England has been asked to examine claims that the exams watchdog, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), pressurised exam boards into lowering results to counter claims that A-levels had been dumbed down.
As the Commons embarked on the second day of debate on the contents of the Queen's Speech on 19 November, Mr Balls accused shadow schools secretary Michael Gove of trying to "run down" the achievements of young people by claiming they only had to respond to "Mickey Mouse" test questions, which had been "dumbed down".
As for the backlash against dumbed-down electronic dance music, that is now out in the open.
Some may think a master's degree offers so much more than a dumbed-down undergraduate degree.
"What they're showing you now is a dumbed-down version of what this technology is capable of doing, " she said.
A-levels to get to university is the new, dumbed-down, exam system for 18-year-olds.
Mr Harford, who works at the Financial Times, is an amiable guide for the non-specialist reader, neither too lofty nor dumbed-down.
And the money should be used for serious upgrades to the network, not dumbed-down information systems that tell passengers what they already know.
By the same token, in the highest rungs of even our dumbed-down democracy, cultural capital is a similar marker for career and mating success.
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Next, Montgomery wanted to remake Scott's line of low-end bikes aimed at women, which he says were previously just smaller, "dumbed-down versions" of men's bikes.
He has been formally advised by the Pentagon that continued adherence to it has required developmental tests to be curtailed, dumbed-down or otherwise made less useful than they could, and should, be.
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