> ASVAB, IQ, and SAT scores are strongly correlated to one another, even though they use slightly different testing methodologies and focus in some ways on diff

> ASVAB, IQ, and SAT scores are strongly correlated to one another, even though they use slightly different testing methodologies and focus in some ways on different things. It's also possible that single cultural factors could be so pervasive that they overwhelmingly swamp any signal by forcing a correlation just on its own. eg: Before the 1960s or so, you could look at every society that had ever existed and make the observation that, except for a countable list of exceptions, men received more education that women. This might lead you to a natural conclusion that men have some natural innate advantage in receiving education that women lack. Except that's not the truth at all, the truth is that patriarchy was such a universal of the human condition that it affected every single corner of the planet to such an extent that there was no control group until very, very recently. So much so that even the slightest letting off of patriarchy shows women are so much more innately suited to education that colleges have had to quietly implement affirmative action programs for men simply to keep their gender balances even remotely in check. Many people would argue that classism and racism so thoroughly pervades our understanding of intelligence that we will simply never get our control group until some future date when they recede enough for us to truly see their effects.