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I'm not sure why you are intentionally choosing the least charitable interpretation of this. No one believes in "magic dirt". When we see such a strong correl
by Infinitesimus 7y ago
I'm not sure why you are intentionally choosing the least charitable interpretation of this.
No one believes in "magic dirt".
When we see such a strong correlation, it leads us to ask questions as a society and sometimes, those point to some uncomfortable truths.
Your parents being in a poorer part of town is often because they do not have the means to live in the richer parts with better schools, more socioeconomically accomplished neighbors.
Genetic legacy could be a factor but I implore you to do a bit more research on the history of IQ tests as they are today and understand that it is often hard for a measure developed by a benchmarking a non-representstive sample of society is very unlikely to represent the whole.
(Check out Radiolab's recent series on Intelligence for example).
I'm not sure the kind of life you've experienced but there are several people smarter than you and more capable in many ways who will never get the chance because they never had the access.
- thrower123 7y agoIQ denialism is the most bizarre thing that I see on a regular basis. I generally see it professed by the cognitively privileged, who have lived almost their entire lives in a bubble that is only populated by people of above average intelligence. The difference is just too stark to ignore in less selective environments; the podunk little school district that I grew up in easily had a 50 point swing between the top and bottom of the distribution, without even factoring in the severe and profound program - and this isn't conjecture, my mother was the elementary special ed resource room teacher for forty years, who did all the testing. By the end of her tenure, she was into the third generation of some families