People were incredibly gullible in the 19th century, so I’m not sure your premise is true. I think 99% of people are equally gullible and 1% of people are notab

People were incredibly gullible in the 19th century, so I’m not sure your premise is true. I think 99% of people are equally gullible and 1% of people are notably less gullible and so there is a small improvement between the 19th century and today.