The researchers found that scores associated with “verbal reasoning (logic, vocabulary), matrix reasoning (visual problem solving, analogies), and letter and number series (computational/mathematical)” all declined from 2006 to 2018, while scores for 3D rotation or spatial reasoning increased. These changes were consistent regardless of education level, age, or gender.
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“It doesn’t mean their mental ability is lower or higher; it’s just a difference in scores that are favoring older or newer samples,” she said in a press release. “It could just be that they’re getting worse at taking tests or specifically worse at taking these kinds of tests.”
Dworak also said there are numerous possibilities for the decline, ranging from poor nutrition to a rise in screens and media consumption to pollution and a decline in overall health.
As it happens, I just researched this ten days ago in feedback to a science fiction author on a manuscript in which he had used “Apple II’s” for the plural of that computer. Here are my comments:
There are one or two cases in which it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to form a plural, purely for the sake of clarity:
You can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single letters:
I’ve dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s.
Find all the p’s in appear.
You can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single numbers:
Find all the number 7’s.
These are the only cases in which it is generally considered acceptable to use an apostrophe to form plurals: remember that an apostrophe should never be used to form the plural of ordinary nouns, names, abbreviations, or numerical dates.
That is an interesting observation. Many of the earlier Mustangs went straight from the showroom. floor to a “tuner” who replaced all manner of things, including suspension, engines, etc. What one ended up with was a serious hot rod Mustang, but hardly a stock one.
Steve Saleen made so many of those that he glutted the market for the 2015-16 GT’s base 18 inch 10-spoke wheels with Pirelli all-seasons. He’d sell you a set for $699.
(I have converted the picture above to monochrome to make it look more like the Thunderbird in the quoted image.) Some may argue it’s an inauthentic picture of an MGB because there are no gaping holes where the body has rusted away. My first car, Crunderthush, was a 1966 MGB.
Steve Saleen made so many of those that he glutted the market for the 2015-16 GT’s base 18 inch 10-spoke wheels with Pirelli all-seasons. He’d sell you a set for $699”
I always thought Steve Saleen did more damage to the Mustang single-handedly than all the other mopes together. Let’s not forget the Ford 289 may be the most modified, raced engine on the planet. There are more versions of that basic block than pretty much all the others put together. Not only did Fords use them, but they were the basic power in the original Cobras, Sunbeam Plus (or whatever they called the darn thing they shoehorned a 260 into and turned a “cute” English car into an idiot car), Mustangs, Lotus 19’s, and many, many other racing versions of cars. If you went to the track in the 60’s or 70’s (or even later) you were bound to run into a pack of them. “We” drove one of our house guy’s 64-1/2 Mustang convertible with a 289 that was bored, stroked, had Mickey Thompson tuned headers, 3/4 roller cams, non-existent glass packs, and … 4 Weber dual-throat downstroke carbs! It could pass pretty much anything - but a gas station. Even in those “cheap gas days” we only got about 4 or so MPG. BOY, were those Webers LOUD when you hit the boogie pedal.
Many dogs not barking. Why the insufficient Muslim sample size?
As with many studies “Jews” ends up as an ethnicity rather than a religion. Take two equally irreligious people, one born to practicing Jewish parents and the other born to practicing Protestant parents. The former is still a Jew, whereas the latter is an atheist. That’s likely a big reason for the dislike of evangelicals in the the Jewish and atheist numbers
I had a Lotus Europa in the mid 70s, with dual carbs that required regular carb oil changes. The body never rusted, it was fiberglass, but it leaked oil, overheated and blew the cooling fan switch out of it’s bung if idled for very long, and dribbled off odd parts on a regular basis. It took at least two hours of working on it for every hour driving, and it was only a couple years old
I think you mean Joseph Lucas (“the prince of darkness”), founder of Lucas Industries, makers of the “Lucas electrics” in many British cars as well as appliances and other equipment.
Joke: “Why do the British drink warm beer”.
Punchline: “Lucas also make refrigerators.”
Joke: “What do you call a Lucas vacuum cleaner?”
Punchline: “Their only product that does not suck.”
Only food products meeting certain criteria – such as organic certification, fair pay for farmers and workers, and short supply chains – would be able to be purchased with the allowance,
