A remarkable gap between the actual paper (or even the abstract) and the report on it in the Washington Post. A case of skewing the interpretation to fit the desired (environmentalist and egalitarian) narrative....
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Replying to @jerryzmuller @razibkhan
Note that one could draw the conclusion that since changes in technology provide added income advantages in the labor market for those with more favorable genetic endowments, government policy should aim at greater income supplements for those who earn less.
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Replying to @jerryzmuller @razibkhan
Another generic issue I've been noticing with the PGS/social mobility papers: none of them seem to bother to deal with the fact that the PGS is pretty bad ie measurement error leading to differential regression to means. A poor kid with a PGS of 1 != a rich kid w/PGS=1.
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(I wonder if this is an issue with the 'nature of nurture' papers too?)
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