I will tell you this though. After 5 years as foreman in a shop I had a much harder time with the 19-27 year olds not knowing how to read and do simple math than I did with them dressing like chicks or having a hairdo that bothered me.
My dad taught auto mechanics in Boise State's vocational dept for many years. He retired about the time that computers were really coming into play in cars. More than once he talked to me about some of his students who couldn't read or do math. He said that they could be great mechanics but with the new high tech stuff, they couldn't read the manuals or decifer the new diagnostic tools. He didn't have much hope for them in the new world of auto mechanics.
