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Sometimes it feels like we’re all getting dumber. A new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) sheds light on the matter. It found reading and math scores for adults in most of the world’s high-income countries have declined during the past decade. One of the study’s authors, the OECD’s Glenda Quintini, talks with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler about the findings.