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Same thing happened when someone noticed a correlation between successful kids and kids who have books at home. Someone ordered that every household should hav
by iampims 8y ago
Same thing happened when someone noticed a correlation between successful kids and kids who have books at home.
Someone ordered that every household should have books at home while failing to realize that correlation != causation…
- seansmccullough 8y agoSame thing with home ownership.
- alex_young 8y agoAll of the above are great screens for wealth. Interesting coincidence.
- cm2012 8y agoParental income and educational achievments of children are almost perfectly correlated up until some very high wealth #. https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/ https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and...
- bzbarsky 8y agoRight, but so are parental income and parental achievement. And last I checked, there is a strong correlation between maternal educational achievement and child educational achievement even after controlling for various things including wealth. The correlation with paternal achievement when controlling for other factors is much lower.
- cm2012 8y agoYes, this is why the idea of meritocracy sounds fair, but really isn't. Our merit is largely determined by factors outside of our control.
- WalterBright 8y agoIt's a well-known fact that your car will go faster if it is painted red.
- anticensor 8y agoDid you mean "won't go faster"? This reads like an unmarked sarcasm.
- ohBlahDeeBlah 8y agoHe means red cars go faster, because the people who buy red cars always drive fast. This is a well-known platonic ideal.