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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by peterfirefly on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:35PM (#35890637)
We know for a fact that it is IQ that is driving SES and not the other way around.
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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by mrguyorama on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:05PM (#35891939)
What evidence do you have for this claim? You are suggesting SES is a meritocracy around IQ.
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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by _dain_ on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:38PM (#35893869)
identical twins reared together vs apart, their IQs correlate more with their twin's than with the SES of the adoptive family.

high quality studies have found that the additive heritability of IQ is somewhere around 0.8-0.9, that's just totally incompatible with parental SES as the primary upstream cause. it's simply not debatable (and it wasn't debatable ten years ago either; this is hardly new knowledge)

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