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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by torginus on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:02PM (#30836173)
The heritability of wealth, combined with assortative mating, means that increasingly class divides are forming around differences in wealth. I think many people are rightly concerned that this will eventually result in simply a different entrenched class hierarchy.
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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by lliamander on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:35PM (#30836420)
That's how class divides have historically worked, yes. Previously those differences were also enforced through explicit class-based laws (the actually meaning of privilege).

The introduction of free markets, and later IQ testing, disrupted a great deal of the entrenched social class structure within western societies and allowed many people of rather humble backgrounds to achieve great things.

The concern I express is about whether IQ testing will continue provide the same level of social mobility in the future.

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