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Study: It's Better to Be Born Rich Than Smart
- gtirloni 7y agoIn other news, water is wet. Jokes aside, it's always good to have studies done on this issue.
- bfrog 7y agoIs think the evidence in 45 would be enough...
- mcv 7y agoA single example doesn't prove it, but he's certainly the embodiment of it.
- ve55 7y ago>In short, the system conspires against young people from poor families, especially those who are Black or Latino Shouldn't they adjust for SES in order to make race-specific claims, when race and SES are correlated? The paper switches between using SES and race, but at no point adjusts for either, so information about which of these two factors correlates with the outcomes is not actually provided. While both may correlate multiplicatively in some way, it's not enough to infer single-variable causality firstly because two variables are being used instead of one, and secondly because causality is a large jump from observing correlations).
- junar 7y agoThey did look at this in their full report, although I agree that it's less evident from the summaries. See "Race and ethnicity interact with socioeconomic status to affect students’ likelihood of achieving and maintaining academic success" in the full report below. https://1gyhoq479ufd3yna29x7ubjn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Born_to_Win_Schooled_to_Lose.pdf#page=32 https://1gyhoq479ufd3yna29x7ubjn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
- SamReidHughes 7y agoIf you want a real answer to this question, look at how well adopted kids' incomes correlate with their adoptive parents', compared to kids raised by their biological parents.