Were the Victorians cleverer than us?
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Were the Victorians cleverer than us?
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Re: Were the Victorians cleverer than us?
#2How does this square with the Flynn Effect? Alas, I'm not clever to figure it out myself.
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#3They may have been, but then they put lead in everything. Since then everyone has been dumb.
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#4Well, they certainly might've had better grammar than us. “Cleverer” my foot.
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#5How does this square with the Flynn Effect? Alas, I'm not clever to figure it out myself.
Read the second paragraph of the introduction.
Re: Were the Victorians cleverer than us?
#6Well, they certainly might've had better grammar than us. “Cleverer” my foot.
I'll take my "more clever", and head back to the 1800s I suppose.
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#7Well, they certainly might've had better grammar than us. “Cleverer” my foot.
"Cleverer" is absolutely correct:
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#8We'll never know, because it's behind a pay wall. It's hard to consider the cause of the supposed effect without access to the methodology used.
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#10I think linking to journal articles is a good thing even when they are paywalled like this but please give some context and a summary of the results.