> It seems important to me that society should apply boosts to people who can demonstrate ability through some trainable measure that is advantaged by intelligence until they hit some threshold.

In theory, this is what merit-based college scholarships are for. In practice, arguably not so much.

Because real boosts in this society are not puny scholarships. Its graduating with a good job already lined up, no debt, and and a heap of cash. This is basically how a lot of my wealthy friends I met in college ended up. Parents would even give them like 100k cash or even more as a graduation present. They’d also throw down on their down payments for new car or housing. Meanwhile their peers who are also getting a scrap of paper that graduation day are perhaps in debt by that amount.

Pretty irresponsible to have a headline that is contradicted by the text

We would need to improve academic assessment.

Perhaps some sort of action that affirmatively supports systemically oppressed folks.

Huh, wonder what we could call it?

Is intelligence what we should focus on? The smartest people often make the worst decisions due to hubris.