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So your reasoning is "elites have always been more educated then average, so standard education cannot have had an effect in average literacy"? It is far more r
by namaria 3y ago
So your reasoning is "elites have always been more educated then average, so standard education cannot have had an effect in average literacy"? It is far more reasonable (and verifiable) to conclude that widespread standard education is more than just correlated with higher average rates of literacy.
- eru 3y agoByran Caplan's Case Against Education might be a good place to start. The author has collected a lot of statistics.
- namaria 3y agoFor the second time in as many days, I find myself saying on HN: your argument only makes sense if you reduce all societal logic to economic logic. What a way to live.