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Look, I'm no lefty or blank-slater by any means but "lower IQ" populations is a pretty inaccurate characterization. I grew up fairly lower class and knew a lot
by gedy 11y ago
Look, I'm no lefty or blank-slater by any means but "lower IQ" populations is a pretty inaccurate characterization. I grew up fairly lower class and knew a lot of bright people who failed due to shitty parenting and broken homes, and little opportunity to go to college, etc. I've known a lot of folks from well-off families that are frankly not the brightest people, but they doing well from the opportunities they had.
- vox_mollis 11y agoand little opportunity to go to college Well, SV isn't exactly perfect, but it's one of the few places where capabilities are more important than credentials. I'm not talking about the 135 IQ kid who grows up in a shack in Appalachia, because that's a situation that is at least theoretically addressable. I'm talking about the ~40% of the population who, even if we addressed the problems of parenting, would still be completely left behind by policies that ignore the realities and limitations of the largely biologically determined working memory capacity and abstract thinking ability. THIS is the intractable problem, short of living in GATTACA.
- gedy 11y agoFair enough, though 40% seems a pretty broad swath tbh - honestly a lot SV work is not brainiac academic CS work, it's UI making, etc.
- pc86 11y agos/a lot/most/g
- Apocryphon 11y agoAren't there plenty of environmental factors that impact IQ as well? Maybe we should work on addressing those factors first.
- emodendroket 11y ago> Well, SV isn't exactly perfect, but it's one of the few places where capabilities are more important than credentials. And also factors that have nothing to do with capability like how much you have in common with the other employees at startups.