Ah, thanks for pointing these things out! I didn’t realise either of these things—admittedly, I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to research the historical facts for this. A lot of these points were taken from some top posts on Quora on a thread about progress over the past few centuries, and I was (perhaps naively) hoping that crowdsourced info would give me fairly accurate info. Anyway, I was thinking of writing a more detailed article about human progress at some point, so I’ll definitely try to do a bit more research and take these points into account—thanks for flagging my errors/sloppiness!
Ah, thanks for pointing these things out! I didn’t realise either of these things—admittedly, I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to research the historical facts for this. A lot of these points were taken from some top posts on Quora on a thread about progress over the past few centuries, and I was (perhaps naively) hoping that crowdsourced info would give me fairly accurate info. Anyway, I was thinking of writing a more detailed article about human progress at some point, so I’ll definitely try to do a bit more research and take these points into account—thanks for flagging my errors/sloppiness!