[synnik]

100 years ago, education was rarer, but very strong. The records we have from those days are from the best and brightest.

Today, education is more broadly available. We can read the words of the brightest of our time, and the dimmest. They are all online for our reading pleasure.

So are we smarter? Are they smarter 100 years ago? Odds are, no to both questions. But we certainly have a visibility into the full spectrum of today's people. We don't have that view of olden folk. Our perspective will be skewed.

[gaius]

Yes it's like Victorian buildings, bridges, etc. Those Victorians sure knew how to build to last!

But wait, we only see their buildings that did last. Everything that's not a Victorian structure is evidence of something of theirs that didn't...