I don’t have nearly enough evidence to have high confidence in this conclusion, but I think high schoolers are intellectually lazier simply because of the selection effect of the college application process. I have noticed (warning: anecdotal evidence!) that college students (myself included) tend to procrastinate a lot more, but that may only be because they have increased freedom to do so.
But I haven’t seen any reason to believe that laziness is more prevalent in high school than in the general population.
And you might be right—I don’t think it’s an easy task to convince the general population to think, either. (Plus, “general population” includes people who don’t have a high school education.)
I don’t have nearly enough evidence to have high confidence in this conclusion, but I think high schoolers are intellectually lazier simply because of the selection effect of the college application process. I have noticed (warning: anecdotal evidence!) that college students (myself included) tend to procrastinate a lot more, but that may only be because they have increased freedom to do so.
And you might be right—I don’t think it’s an easy task to convince the general population to think, either. (Plus, “general population” includes people who don’t have a high school education.)