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now what were the giant advances in education attained during the last hundred years? Can anyone explain that?

dragonwriter 12y ago
The giant advances in the developed world include--but are not limited to--building economies where more people people had the luxury of having access to more years of education and the luxury of devoting time to it.
- MichaelMoser123 12y ago
  Thank you. You are right that now there is a higher percentage of people who finish high school and college. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U... However now you need a BA for almost every job; even if you don't need this level of skill for the job in question. One also hears lamentations with regards to grade inflation etc, so it is not clear how much of an improvement there was in 'real terms'.
barry-cotter 12y ago
Mass universal literacy. The first society with close with that was Puritan New England in the 1600s. Now the only parts of the world that don't have mass literacy are the Bottom Billion countries, shitholes like Afghanistan or most of Africa. Also, abstract thought more generally. The Flynn Effect (secular increases in unnormed IQ scores) is basically what happens when everyone gets to Piaget's Formal Operations stage.
- MichaelMoser123 12y ago
  Thank you. i thought that a hundred years ago basic literacy was already a solved problem (at least in the US and Europe). Now you mentioned the Flynn Effect; are there any studies that do check if the improvement in IQ scores is correlated with an improvement in performance of piagetian tasks? However you are right that now there is a higher percentage of people who finish high school and college. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...

The giant advances in the developed world include--but are not limited to--building economies where more people people had the luxury of having access to more years of education and the luxury of devoting time to it.

MichaelMoser123 12y ago
Thank you. You are right that now there is a higher percentage of people who finish high school and college. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U... However now you need a BA for almost every job; even if you don't need this level of skill for the job in question. One also hears lamentations with regards to grade inflation etc, so it is not clear how much of an improvement there was in 'real terms'.

barry-cotter 12y ago

Mass universal literacy. The first society with close with that was Puritan New England in the 1600s. Now the only parts of the world that don't have mass literacy are the Bottom Billion countries, shitholes like Afghanistan or most of Africa. Also, abstract thought more generally. The Flynn Effect (secular increases in unnormed IQ scores) is basically what happens when everyone gets to Piaget's Formal Operations stage.

MichaelMoser123 12y ago
Thank you. i thought that a hundred years ago basic literacy was already a solved problem (at least in the US and Europe). Now you mentioned the Flynn Effect; are there any studies that do check if the improvement in IQ scores is correlated with an improvement in performance of piagetian tasks? However you are right that now there is a higher percentage of people who finish high school and college. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_U...