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"Leftists" don't think the correlations between results in IQ tests and many other things (such as memory, income and reflexes) exist?
by concordDance 5y ago
"Leftists" don't think the correlations between results in IQ tests and many other things (such as memory, income and reflexes) exist?
- myWindoonn 5y agoCorrelation doesn't always imply causation, right? For example, there's a correlation between IQ and income. There are several causative possibilities: * IQ causes income * Income causes IQ * Some unknown thing causes both income and IQ * The correlation is spurious; IQ and income are unrelated Evidence strongly suggests that the third bullet point is true; socioeconomic class causes both income and IQ. Richer people living in nicer neighborhoods both have better opportunities for income, and also better opportunities for education; education causes IQ. This is why redlining is brought up so often as a root cause of so many of the disparities in quality of life; redlining deepened socioeconomic divides.
- concordDance 5y agoHaven't there been studies untangling causation here? Using random events that hit socioeconomic class as a natural experiment? Adoption studies might also be informative.