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To: Road Walker who wrote (927)8/15/2018 11:49:10 AM
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Hi Roadwalker, I saw a Ted talk yesterday by James Flynn that mirrored a concept I deduced 50 years ago and have tried to explain to people with varying success over the years. The link is below.

The thesis is this: over the last couple of hundred years we have gone from almost categorical concrete thinking to increasing abstract thinking and this has made us much smarter. flynn says: "We don't just get a few more questions right each new generation we get many more questions right. We have "new habits of mind".

James Flynn makes the point, that our minds have altered dramatically , from people who only confronted a concrete world to a very complex world today. If you score the IQ of people when the Stanford Benit was first published in 1916 , against today's standards they would score around 70, boarder line mental retardation. If you score todays people against those people we would score around 130, boarder line genius.

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