this is really strong evidence that the tests are in fact Good tbh if income nets you a discrepancy this small, not even accounting for the effect of heritable intelligence on income, thats p impressive I say this as someone who got a higher score than you did on the standardiz
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what's the vertical axis? percentage difference from average test score? I mean, the chart tracks median household income (was about $60K in 2017) very closely. average income, average test scores. the correlation is interesting. not sure if the difference is small.
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I could tell a lot of stories about this but the main one is probably "income and heritable ability track fairly closely" if you want an ability meritocracy this is fine if you want a gini coefficient of zero but for admission to caltech then its obviously bad
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up to a point that's true. I'd really like to see this data charted at income levels between $200K/year up to $200 million/year. My hypothesis would be that above a certain wealth threshold the heritability effect breaks down sharply.
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huh? if my hypothesis is supported by the data my conclusion from it would be that IQ testing is good at measuring [whatever it measures] but the tail ends of income distribution are dominated by different things than IQ
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surely causality is more interesting 30s googlingpic.twitter.com/9JEFh18liV
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you're basically assuming that IQ is distributed independently of parental income but its almost surely not
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