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Re:Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to re... by teamonkey on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @08:50PM (#45283468)
Yes, it’s almost certainly linked to quality of schooling and exposure to those types of problems, amongst other things, see the Flynn Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

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Re:Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to re... by 3cKU on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:06PM (#45308775)
Access to schooling etc can't be the whole story: "black students from prosperous families tend to score higher in IQ than blacks from poor families, but they score no higher, on average, than whites from poor families".
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Re:Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to re... by tptacek on Saturday September 20, 2025 @09:16AM (#45313118)
So IQ is malleable and SES-dependent and GxE interactions are real.
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Re:Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to re... by 3cKU on Saturday September 20, 2025 @05:31PM (#45317735)
No. The first part of that quote is consistent with any hypothesis (G only, E only, G&E), i.e. cannot distinguish between them.
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