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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by Jensson on Friday February 07, 2025 @10:59PM (#42980251)
> I looked at that table and immediately thought, "Those are pretty solid correlation values", so I was confused by the point you were making.

They said "highest", not "solid". Family income isn't the highest factor there.

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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by notTooFarGone on Saturday February 08, 2025 @03:29AM (#42981440)
Of course if having a brain would be on the table there would be no contest. Being the highest correlation in a rather arbitrary list is not a valid qualifier for being a good correlation.
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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by thaumasiotes on Saturday February 08, 2025 @02:49PM (#42985649)
> Of course if having a brain would be on the table there would be no contest.

Is that really what you think? In reality, the possession of a brain can't have any correlation with SAT scores at all, because there is zero variance in the trait.

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