What metrics do you use?
If literacy rate goes up, average reading level among literate is a bad metric. Same here.
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Literacy rate is flat (meaning probably down). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States …
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It was an analogy. You had those when you took the SATs right ;)
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No, your "goes up" is not an analogy for "flat (or really, falling)".
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"western civ declining" always comes with a hidden assumption that "my favorite culture" equals "western civ". Which can't be true if ...
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...you want to claim socrates, descarte, luther, einstein, et al are all part of western civ.
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There's a progression, but no Whig historiographic b.s. Problem is all good things come to end. You should have stopped after Socrates, btw.
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If decline hypothesis is valid there should be many strong metrics. So far you've suggested one, and it's easily been refuted. More metrics?
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It's comically predictable for one to claim that decline began after the Golden Age that just happens to coincide with their own youth.
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My youth has nothing to do with it (I'm older than you think). I cited objective-enough measures. Try a non-ad-hominem response.
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One measure: SAT scores. Two people pointed out that reduced mean is easily explained by artifacts of sample selection. Got more metrics?
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That is not what happened when SAT scores were intentionally recentered based on empircal distribution. https://research.collegeboard.org/programs/sat/data/equivalence …
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