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Comment author: gwern 14 November 2013 12:31:32AM 0 points [-]

(other than the fact that the latter make up a larger proportion of the current population).

That does change things... Post-1930 saw an incredible expansion of college going, democratizing to a large fraction of the population. The enrolled population is going to change since it was very far from a random sample in the first place.