if you think you are smarter than the previous generation..

[outcaststudios]

..50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.
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[my59]

I lived in places with no or little TV growing up, and so read a lot. Took way to many English Lit classes in HS, and same in college, as I could rip through assigned reading with ease, it was all low hanging fruit while I was studying architecture.

I later inherited a book my grandfather had a a kid, a circa 1915 boy flyers adventure tangling with the dreaded Hun, and read it to my boys when they were about 10 and 12.

There was vocabulary in the boy flyer book I had to look up...
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my59: Well son, my grandfather died before I got to drive it, so does that answer your question?
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Other:'12 Jetta, '77 Benz 300D, and a 74 MG Midget.

[Bonesberg55]

I don't think I'm smarter than previous generations but I'm smarter than ensuing generations. They are regressing thanks to less focus on the 3 Rs & more on other foolishness.

[KTPhil]

Compare these editions and tell me what the expectations are for young men now...

1959:

2016:

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[Glenn]

Two weeks ago my wife called saying there's a yellow light on the dash. i asked her what it looks like, winds up being the low pressure sensor. Told her to push the "I" button on the steering wheel, she does and it says "low tire pressure". Tell her to to push either button to the left or right and it will toggle the display and it will display the tire pressure in each tire. She says the rear right says "0". I ask her how long has it been on, she says 15 minutes.

Luckily only the tire was damaged, the rim was OK.

She says "the car is smart", I tell her "at least one of you are".

Needless to say that didn't go over well.

RTFM
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[Glenn]

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[Glenn]

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[oprn]

Absolutely not!

My Dad only had 8th grade, I have some collage behind me and his math and writing skills are head and shoulders above mine all day long everyday! Today's youth cannot add 2+2 without a calculator, cannot spell, punctuate or complete a sentence! Chances that they could read and comprehend the battery acid warning are pretty slim... it's that the generation that eats Tide pods?

Regression is the rule not progression!
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We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)

[Joe 20]

There have been stupid and smart people in every generation...
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[scottyrocks]

Generalization is never a good thing. There are always good and bad, smart and not-so-smart, etc. It just takes on different forms in different generations.
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– D. Tartt, 'The Goldfinch'

[Iowa Mark]

The facts are that there is a 49% to 51% chance that the generation you are part of is more smarter than the former or the future generations coming up. Now that that is part of the conversation, feel free to quote that fact in all future discussions on this subject. No, really really much more smarter!!!!

[scottyrocks]