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The ...For Dummies series are books instructing the reader how to accomplish some task. In the 1970s, a series of intelligence tests were used to find the percentage of dummies in the population. It was found that the percentage exceeded 130 percent. This was too large of a market to go untapped, so book companies jumped into the market.
More research was performed, and it was discovered that Americans first started getting dumber in the 1950s. It was largely suspected that the cause was television, but this was difficult to prove. Later it was found to be that the lead solder in the television was the problem, and the cause was that people became confused by the term "TV Dinners" and had started to eat televisions.
Popular First Edition Titles[edit | edit source]
- Astrophysics ...For Dummies
- Brain surgery ...For Dummies
- Constructing a Federation Starship ...For Dummies [1]
- Existentialism ...For Dummies
- Kitten Huffing for Dummies
- Magniloquence for Ignoramuses
- For Dummies ...For Dummies, and its sequel...
- Redundancy ...For Dummies
Controversies[edit | edit source]
The Sex ...For Dummies controversy[edit | edit source]
The following trilogy was recalled by the manufacturer, several years after publication:
- Dating ...For Dummies
- Sex ...For Dummies
- Pregnancy ...For Dummies
- Shotgun Weddings ...For Dummies
- Hopelessness ...For Dummies
- Coming Out of the Closet ...For Dummies
- Divorce ...For Dummies
Recently[edit | edit source]
The ...For Dummies series has been vastly successful due to its wide range and massive availability. As a side-effect of the series' success, the average lifespan of a 'Dummy' has tripled. The resulting 'Dummy' population explosion of the last few years has caused many problems throughout the world,(see War in Iraq or Credit Crisis).
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