I see what you're getting at. We open an old test that emphasizes the ability to absorb the wisdom and learning of the past (among its other properties). Then w

I see what you're getting at. We open an old test that emphasizes the ability to absorb the wisdom and learning of the past (among its other properties). Then we read a Hacker News comment thread that dismisses the test in various tried-and-true ways: it's just classism, it's primitive, people were dumber then, and so on. The test is by no means serious evidence for academic or intellectual decline or otherwise, but one thing is clear: in yesteryear, educated people honored the yesteryear. Today, we don't.