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A comment on You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances.

Re:You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances by reamworks on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:16PM (#9620453)
This is nonsense. If you correct for Socio-economic status, you'll find the best predictor is IQ. You can give a kid an IQ test at age 10 and know whether or not he'll graduate college.

Since IQ is heritable, kids from more successful homes will be more successful.

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Re:You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances by untog on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:21PM (#9620485)
If you correct for Socio-economic status

...which is the entire point

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Re:You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances by reamworks on Thursday May 28, 2015 @10:05PM (#9622327)
You'll find SES isn't what this is showing--it's IQ differences.
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Re:You Draw It: How Family Income Affects College Chances by untog on Friday May 29, 2015 @09:20AM (#9624326)
It isn't, though.
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