[lbo-talk] a nation of haves & have-nots? Americans equally divided...

[John Thornton]

W. Kiernan wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>  >
>  > if you took a person who scored 100 on a IQ test
>  > today and sent them back in time to take the 1920
>  > IQ test, they would score about 135 (near genius
>  > level).
>
> Bet you'd drive a car nearly as well as a old-time racing champion too, 
> from all the practice you've got that they didn't have.  I mean we've 
> had decades of refining teachers's techniques of training kids to excel 
> at answering short snappy quiz questions.  You don't really suppose that 
> we're actually a whole lot smarter today than they were a century ago, 
> do you?
>
> Yours WDK - WKiernan at gmail.com

I've driven two pre-war racing cars as well as one "roadster" and 
nothing anyone does behind the wheel of a modern car with power 
steering, brakes, radials, etc. prepares one for driving such machines.
Do you similarly imagine you could play baseball at the same level as 
Tye Cobb?

John Thornton