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Or something else contributes to both income and health (intelligence seems like a good candidate, there's a similar multi year life expectancy difference betwe
by ikeboy 11y ago
Or something else contributes to both income and health (intelligence seems like a good candidate, there's a similar multi year life expectancy difference between the high and low ends).
I wonder how much simply controlling for parents' money and health would make this go away, although that doesn't separate effects from monetary inheritance.
- ikeboy 11y agoAlthough poverty might affect intelligence (I'm not sure the current state of research. Definitely there's a correlation, but I don't know whether genetics fully explains it or whether we can point a causal arrow from poverty to lower IQ.)
- gadders 11y agoCommon sense would appear to suggest that, on the whole, lower IQ could be a cause for poverty.
- ikeboy 11y agoSure, but some have suggested the reverse as well.
- emodendroket 11y agoWhy do we need to study anything at all when we can just rely on our self-serving intuitions?
- gadders 11y agoSo you think having an IQ below 100 wouldn't hamper you in the job market?
- emodendroket 11y agoDepends on the work; not all work requires you to be a genius. But simply saying it's "obvious" that that must be one of the prime drivers of poverty strikes me as 1) not that obvious at all 2) self-serving