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Lol this correlation says nothing about poor people being dumber

But that better educated make more money

Get back to me when society stops tilted the economic success playing field against poor people, and offers them the same welfare we give the rich

Until then this 36 yr old, born and raised in a trailer park, college dropout with enough assets now to only have to work part time on contracts that interest me, while living in a city with higher than average cost of living, will call bs

Given the issues the social sciences have with reproducible results, that Gwern is linking more science blogs than papers, and that we know rich people have conspired to hold poor people back via laws and other self serving maneuvers I'm still going to lean into "bullshit" category

When you have evidence that the supposedly smart and highly moral are guilty of oppressing an entire swath of people and you point at mostly economic markers without controlling for bad behavior by the "haves" you're just skewing your own results

That rich do better within our culture, which is rigged to give the rich an advantage, it doesn't say much to whether they are truly smarter