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Re:Japanese 'Prince' Switched At Birth Was Raised A Pauper by wsxcde on Friday November 29, 2013 @10:26PM (#6822139)
There's no dearth of evidence showing that, for instance, parental wealth correlates with educational success of children. And then there's a loads of evidence showing that educational outcomes correlate with lifetime earnings.

Have you even tried looking for these citations? It's hard to believe you didn't find them because there is no shortage of published research on this topic. Here's the first link I picked off google scholar: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2673145

How about you provide citations for the case that you are making?

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Re:Japanese 'Prince' Switched At Birth Was Raised A Pauper by anotheraccount7 on Saturday November 30, 2013 @03:35AM (#6822656)
The correlations you present don't inform the nature v nurture debate at all.

The pro-nature side would simply contend that wealth correlates with more advantageous genetics and that the success of their prodigy mostly has to do with the genetics they pass down, and less to do with the economic advantages presented to them

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Re:Japanese 'Prince' Switched At Birth Was Raised A Pauper by wsxcde on Saturday November 30, 2013 @01:05PM (#6823883)
Maybe I didn't make it very clear but I was responding to daniel-cussen's sarcastic comments about "the progressive agenda".

The pro-nature side would simply contend that wealth correlates with more advantageous genetics

Seems like this is easily testable by looking at the distinction in, say, educational outcomes between "old" and "new" money. Are you aware of any citations supporting this hypothesis?

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