====== Obsolete Skills Identification Of ======

| **Field** | Following instructions |
| **Went Obsolete** | Sometime around the "No Child Left Behind" policy |
| **Made Obsolete By** | nothing |
| **Knowledge Assumed** | Comprehension of the English Language, |
| **When useful** | Always |

There are many items on this list that are not really skills. A skill is defined as ability to use knowledge to perform a task.

Some of the items on this list are not really skills, unless you think we're all just a bunch of trained apes.

Criteria to identify a skill:

  - Does the activity require knowledge and training
  - Will the activity result in some outcome influenced by the actions of number 1
  - etc.

Among the items that really are skills, many are not obsolete, except perhaps within the limited social circle of the submitter.