Such broad generalizations are rather annoying. Most intelligent people will realize that praise granted indiscriminately is not really praise at all. If every

Such broad generalizations are rather annoying. Most intelligent people will realize that praise granted indiscriminately is not really praise at all. If everyone gets an A, then the A itself becomes average (at least, in an intellectual sense). While it's possible that people are so deluded as to believe the in the brilliance of a performance demonstrably within such an average (relative to their classmates, teammates, or whatever), I have not seen this within my peers (who are, in fact, millennials). In other words, individual egos are not expanded in light of receiving an A in something akin to the cliched "basket weaving." At most, people feel good about themselves for manipulating the system to their advantage --- that is, finding the course of "least resistance" in the first place. Such an "easy A" is only useful as an external signal of "I'm smart" to employers or grad schools; it is not typically used as a proxy for the quality of one's inherent intellect.