"A dean at the university tells graduates all success stems from inherited privilege and chance." Wow, now apparently there's no value whatsoever to intelligence or talent or knowledge or effort. Let's just make all college admissions based on a lottery!https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-deserves-to-go-to-harvard-11560464201 …
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I don't think that's what they mean, Geoffrey.
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Oh, when I heard 'inheritance' and 'chance', I assumed he was familiar with ACE twin modeling.
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If only we could be so lucky...
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Probably mean race(population) and class
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Race may count as "good genes" since skin color matter that much nowadays
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Legacy admissions
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I think he may be proposing that statistically uncorrected genome testing is being used to limit access to "success".
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