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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by fwip on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:04PM (#19933878)
Income correlates with intelligence because measures of intelligence measure income.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by sisu2019 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:03PM (#19934346)
IQ predicts future income even if the subjects environement is controlled for. It's a very good meassure, probably the best we have in the social sciences. What it tells us is not nice, sure, but denying reality is not going to help anyone.
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