But on the other hand, a bunch of naturally gifted people with high-IQ but low test scores due to confounding environmental factors like family instability, language barrier etc. now have a fighting chance to learn alongside the elite?
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It doesn't come from admissions committees but at the same time it doesn't exactly come from any big influential people either - just that the admissions committee members and the influential people are conforming to the same social pressures.
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That pressure isn't only about ignoring *markers* of intelligence - that pressure includes actual hostility to the idea of intelligence. This feeds on itself because it's far easier to be orthodox in 2021 if you're stupid - or can fake it.
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Everything that has ever happened suggests that they were wrong about talent being equally distributed. Not a new discovery.
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