> Only about one in 200 children from the poorest third of households achieves SAT scores at Yale’s median. wow, it's almost like * IQ is hereditary * IQ helps people earn money * Yale filters for IQ but no it can't be that simple https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritocracys-miserable-winners/594760/ …
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4/ But let us imagine a more efficient, BETTER store that does a 99.99% accurate job of sorting good eggs into egg boxes, and onions into onions bags "grocery mobility" is very low ... because everything is properly sorted to start with
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5/ Now, perhaps you have solid evidence that 85 IQ parents in the ghetto (a) often have 150 IQ children (b) do a great job of raising those children, reading to them, teaching them the value of study over short term hedonism if so, then we would hope for high economic mobility
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6/ Is this the case? Do 85 IQ parents tend to have genius children at same rate that married couples with a 150 average IQ do? Do parents who work 20 hours/week at Dollar General, or fake a disability so their welfare checks will pay for cigarettes give their kids good memes?
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7/ I'm open to this hypothesis! Perhaps there's some data out there on intensive early interventions? https://twitter.com/gamingbus/status/1163933016454045696 …
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