Pants-of-dog wrote:It is inarguably true that more people receive a quality education than during the classical era.
No it isn't. It is just your own assumption based on nothing combined with your ignorance. You were unaware just a moment ago that they even had an education.
Ancient Athenian children were tutored in arithmetic, grammar, rhetoric, astronomy, geometry, music and logic. They went on to invent theatres, drama, comedy, philosophy, science, history, rhetoric, gyms, lawyers, courts, ballots and democracy. Is modern democracy today superior to ancient Athenian? Nowhere near, is modern art superior to Athenian art? Again nowhere near, are modern buildings superior to the ancient ones?
Then how are the individuals responsible for them?
Alexander had Aristotle as a tutor and made the impossible a reality. Was your teacher at school as smart and as intelligent as Aristotle? or as Epictetus the slave or as Aesop another slave? Can you even follow a rudimentary arithmetic or geometrical argument written out in full?
Can you understand elementary level math by reading
Euclid's elements?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27 ... athematics.
I bet my left nut that you are incapable of reading elementary level math, yet you claim that you possess a superior education.
Prove it to yourself. Read the book, it's elementary level math you already "know". 1 post ago, you failed to read an English paragraph correctly 3 times and you had to receive literacy instructions while claiming that you are a multi-lingual, multi-cultural titan of literacy.
Seriously, how is your education any good and allegedly superior?
The second factor is “improved….nutrition”. Again, we can see how widespread improved nutrition is and the quality thereof. The Green Revolution made nutritious food available to large portions of the world that had been unable to do so before, and has undoubtedly made improved nutrition far more commonplace. And as to the quality, we also can say that we now have access to science that helps us improve the quality of nutrition in a way that was impossible for people 2500 (or even 250) years ago.
The third factor is “reduced pathogen stress”. Now, while Mycanean royalty had flushing toilets and Rome had aqueducts, the vast majority of human settlements at the time had no sanitation systems, meaning human waste was often present in the immediate environment. This significantly increases the likelihood of infection and would have been reduced until the industrial era in the west.
Your nonsense is boring claims about other parts of the world, comparing apples with oranges shamelessly. There are
several parts of the world today that have not managed to achieve the sanitation and nutrition level of 5000 year old Greece. Neither had the west itself up until 100 years ago.
How do you explain this?
The overwhelming majority of ancient Greeks dying of natural causes lived beyond the age of 70, modern countries did not achieve this even with modern hospitals and sanitation, several of them have still not managed to achieve it and those who have, struggle to maintain it.
Pants-of-dog wrote:It makes sense to assume that these factors could reduce intelligence if these factors were reversed.
They have not been reversed though. Your reading of the word 'environmental' in the study still remains illiterate and demonstrates beyond any doubt that you are effectively illiterate.
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