[D Rider]

Both my grandfather's had 8th grade educations. They could solve complicated geometry and algebraic problems run businesses and become quite wealthy. One grandfather grew up in a household where his father made his own lead base paint on the kitchen stove (don't know if that was common or not.) Painted his house almost every year, (no lead exposure there /s.)

Yet too many of today's kids get out of school and can barely read, if at all. And just forget about math. It is because of leaded gasoline? Yeah sure... it's totally believable, that must be it./s

[rlmorel]

Exactly. It is all a bunch of hooey. And I am sure they got government money to do the study.