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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (331905)	10/21/2020 9:54:53 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361973

You are using anecdotal experiences against a 93 year old professor who spent a lifetime studying that subject. When I don't know a subject I look for the best and brightest to teach me. Flynn was talking about the entire population of really the world, not just the US and it was based on the increase in public education. Think of it this way. Compare one population, where most people have a high school education and then compare them with a population where no one has any education. You don't think there will be a difference in how they think? In what they know? They said in Afghanistan many people did not know the earth was round and they had trouble building a military because so many could not count! Up until a 100 years of so ago, most people did not have a high school education. This manifestation started when people started going to school en masse about 100 years ago. And what he was saying is so well accepted in the world of psychology they call it "the Flynn effect". So it seems we are born concrete thinkers, but NEED to learn to be abstract thinkers. You are an abstract thinker. PS: one of my degrees is in experimental psychology with an emphasis in statistics. Cheers