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The most probable reason is income inequality + public education system mostly paid by local real estate taxes. This creates the chicken & egg problem where poo
by Const-me 8y ago
The most probable reason is income inequality + public education system mostly paid by local real estate taxes. This creates the chicken & egg problem where poor neighborhood causes bad education which causes poverty.
- sanxiyn 8y agoEducation has insignificant effect on IQ, so this can't be true.
- frgtpsswrdlame 8y agoActually education does have a significant effect on IQ. http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/109/2/425.full.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/109/2/425.full.pdf
- sanxiyn 8y agoYes, you can attain statistical significance with large sample (N > 100,000). No, it's still insignifcant, because effect size is so small. Did you read the article? The effect is less than 1 point of IQ, whereas black-white IQ gap is usually quoted as 15 points.
- frgtpsswrdlame 8y agoHmm? They find that one additional year of schooling increases IQ by 3.7 points. I'd say taking that figure with the difference in schools that blacks and whites in the US usually attend and you've got a plausible answer that the IQ gap is created through environmental differences.
- jfnixon 8y agoI think the PISA tests disprove your hypothesis.