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What would this select for? All you would be doing is establishing a poor proxy for general intelligence though you would likely select for general intelligence
by Kharvok 5y ago
What would this select for? All you would be doing is establishing a poor proxy for general intelligence though you would likely select for general intelligence on the whole by grading "maturity".
- Kalium 5y agoAlso "good behavior" is a proxy for a healthy home life, which is to a great extent a measure of social and economic class.
- Kharvok 5y agoand household economic prosperity is generally corollary to what?
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoInherited wealth?
- bell-cot 5y agoYes - but how many high-class (social or economic) parents would fight hard to get their kids into schools with bottom-percentile per-pupil funding?
- sacrosancty 5y agoFunding doesn't seem to do much to make a school desirable. By far and away the biggest factor that determines how good a school is is the socioeconomic status of the parents. A school doesn't need more money to be better at educating, it just needs better students. If they happen to form a critical mass at a low-funded school, then that'll become an elite school.