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;

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...