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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by gwern on Monday December 09, 2019 @04:08PM (#21746597)
Really Gerard, are you going to lecture me on this? I am aware of practice, and more importantly, I am aware the IQ gains from education are hollow, from the Milwaukee Project on to Ritchie's paper on education increases. The practice that raises your score does not affect all subtests the same: increasing your vocab does not affect your backwards digit span or reaction time, or increase your longevity or income or...

And that's not relevant anyway. Are you trying to suggest people only get into SMPY because their parents made them practice the SAT? In the 1970s and 1980s, hardly anyone would have even heard of SMPY before their kids took the test in school.

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by davidgerard on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:13PM (#21747714)
you know as well as I do that zip codes are more heritable than IQ

and predict results pretty well too

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by gwern on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:27PM (#21768783)
No, I don't, because they're not: are identical twins more likely to live in the same zip code as fraternal twins? Seriously, think about it for a second. Or I'll put it this way: how much more likely are identical twins adopted out to live in the same zip code?

Nor does zip code predict remotely as well as IQ.

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Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict S... by athrowwwwway on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:08AM (#21771501)
Are we just making up definitions of heritability now?

http://bactra.org/weblog/520.html

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