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		skzv 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin... From the wiki article: > Scholars believe that the Novgorod Republic had an unusually high level of literacy for the time, with literacy apparently widespread throughout different classes and among both sexes.

vik0 5 months ago | [–]

I read that too and I was surprised, but then the first thing that popped into my mind was that this is probably a case of survivorship bias

nkrisc 5 months ago | [–]

Ah, I missed that important bit.

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