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To: i-node who wrote (343856)

8/8/2025 9:50:35 AM

From: koan

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While there is a difference between being smart and being educated, education is how we get smart!

Humans are not born smart, and we were not very smart for thousands of years even though we had the same brain as today, until we got public education, and then we got real smart, real quick.

So smart we went from concrete thinkers to abstract thinkers, and that is where we got modern civilization and things like civil rights which required smarter thinking!

James Flynn says our IQ's as measured by the Stanford Binet increased by 60 points over the last 100 plus years.

My grand parents who weren't very well educated had about a 70 IQ as measured by todays standards, while the kids today have about 130 IQ!

Here is James Flynn explaining it.

Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn

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To: bentway who wrote (343835)	8/8/2025 1:58:50 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 343878

You shouldn't confuse "smart" and "educated". They aren't the same.

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