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Socioeconomic status (SES) _is_ primarily your family's money. Where it comes from might easily include your family's genetics, e.g. genetics for intelligence.
by dash2 7y ago
Socioeconomic status (SES) _is_ primarily your family's money. Where it comes from might easily include your family's genetics, e.g. genetics for intelligence. The parent's point, I think, was that controlling for SES in studies of the effect of intelligence on outcomes is likely to be a mistake, because SES itself will be caused by parental intelligence, which correlates with own intelligence via genetic (and other) pathways.
- bayesian_horse 7y agoIn my opinion the link between intelligence and economic success is hugely overestimated... A strong belief in "meritocracy" leads to a lot of cognitive biases.
- quotemstr 7y agoI'm very tired of people demanding that I believe obvious nonsense like this claim that differences in skill don't exist or that differences in skill don't affect material outcomes. I get that you don't like meritocracy, but I'm not going to accept claims that it's some kind of myth. Hard work and talent leads to success.