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by Malarkey73 2984 days ago
If I understand you correctly. Nobody had run a 4 minute mile before Roger Bannister.

Now lots of people have so standards must have dropped.

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How is that in any way equivalent to your claim, which just so we're clear, is that now 50% of the population (and implied even near 100%) now has the intellectual standards that only 3% of the population had a mere 20 years ago ?

One reason for ever improving records is that we just further explore the long tail of human performance. A decent number of factors that get this one event going would be coincidences, and because we keep and keep and keep trying people get ever closer to perfect.

Nope that's not my claim. Try reading what I wrote.