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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by Erik816 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:33PM (#19934109)
Yes, because intelligent parents tend to make more money. And their children tend to be more intelligent as well.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by learc83 on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:46PM (#19934224)
That's part of it. But even when adjusting for IQ, parental income is highly correlated with success--SAT scores, college admission, lifetime income--however you want to measure it.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by rexpop on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:42AM (#19946244)
Are you sure you're not confusing causation?

I can, just off the top of my head, think of several situational variables impacted by wealth, which impact cognitive capacity:

- sleep - diet - training - study time

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:47PM (#19934228)
Similarly, the wind is strongly affected by weathervanes.
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