Are you saying there was a proportional increase caused by population growth?
What do you think about increases due to stability in the West, better quality food, better quality healthcare, and taller giants upon whose shoulders we can stand?
(About the last one, I mean that as a collective whole, we have much more specific scientific knowledge than our predecessors)
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and however many yesses are required to agree with all those things.
We also shouldn't forget the opening of more intellectual jobs to women, minorities, poor people . . . well, it use to be that only the aristocracy had a shot at being scientists.
What do you think about increases due to stability in the West, better quality food, better quality healthcare, and taller giants upon whose shoulders we can stand?
(About the last one, I mean that as a collective whole, we have much more specific scientific knowledge than our predecessors)