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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by monero-xmr on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:34PM (#42979158)
In a society that leans more towards merit, where the highest compensated jobs correlate with higher IQ and analytical reasoning ability, then incomes and SAT scores will correlate.

That said there are some total dumb fuck rich kids, and absolute genius poor kids. Just because there is correlation shouldn’t imply anyone is destined anywhere.

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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by mmooss on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:06PM (#42979339)
> the highest compensated jobs correlate with higher IQ and analytical reasoning ability

Is there evidence of that?

There is evidence that it correlates with family wealth. Just consider legacy admissions into high-status schools, jobs, etc.

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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by MrVandemar on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:53PM (#42980492)
But we're distinctly not in a society that leans more towards merit.

From what I can see, the highest compensated jobs go to morally and ethically bankrupt raging narcisists, successfully masking psychopaths, and spineless puppets for the previous two categories.

There's a lot of it about.

(And IQ is not a particularly useful metric of overally intelligence. It's a useful metric of measuring how people perform on a common set of problems).

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