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> We're putting the cart before the horse. If you want to accurately act on 'inherent intelligence' you need to correct for external factors first, or else you
by crooked-v 7y ago
> We're putting the cart before the horse.
If you want to accurately act on 'inherent intelligence' you need to correct for external factors first, or else you'll just get a slice of the bell curve based on how rich/poor people are.
- allovernow 7y agoI'm not arguing against that. What I'm saying is that we have been drastically overcorrecting for too long because we refuse to collectively acknowledge the reality of intelligence as a distribution and allocate resources that maximally benefit society.
- crooked-v 7y ago> drastically overcorrecting If anything, we've been undercorrecting. A simple example would be the many studies that show that IQ in children measureably increases in the years following a move from a poor area to a rich area, even if the child's family's income doesn't change.