In Pursuit Of Virtue

https://youtu.be/BcTMK1ityQA This is the test Thomas Edison gave to potential employees. It's 146 questions. You have to get 90%. Compare that to current Standardized tests where 55 is considered passing. When I was a HS junior the passing grade was 65. My senior year, they lowered it to 55. Shockingly, our school got so much "smarter" that year. I have the entire test below. I got maybe 3 right. To be honest, I didn't know the first 5 and gave up and scrolled quickly through. I knew 1 or 2 and thought maybe I would guess another one right. I'm not proud of this. But the questions do seem a bit random. But this was on purpose. He wanted employees with good memories. This is a Scientific American magazine article in 1921, If I had a man in my employ who was right only half the time, or a little more than half the time, he would last just long enough for me to find him out, and that would not take very long. But our schools consistently and persistently give passing grades to students who are right above 60% fo