Maybe I'm jaded but I've met a lot of brilliant people in my life. They come from all sorts of backgrounds. I've often in turn seen how those backgrounds can b

Maybe I'm jaded but I've met a lot of brilliant people in my life. They come from all sorts of backgrounds. I've often in turn seen how those backgrounds can become safety nets, not equally distributed. The benefit of the doubt is extended very far, and when you have knowledge on the other side of the curtain it starts to look self-fulfilling sometimes. It's hard not to look at scatterplots of things like SATs, GREs, and GPAs, and see a lot of randomness. Not pure randomness but it starts to be hard to justify to yourself when correlations of .1-.3 begin to be interpreted in the general public as if they were .9.