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>Now if you mean I'm making an assumption about a candidate That was even more obvious than the sports and cognition fact. Here's the thing: you're doing the
by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
>Now if you mean I'm making an assumption about a candidate
That was even more obvious than the sports and cognition fact.
Here's the thing: you're doing the exact thing that caused the problem in the first place. Creating thought experiments and narrating them at length regarding scenarios which are a rarity, given a problem which occurs frequently, in an environment with thousands of other variables.
In a world where we do in fact have better indicators which are still not used, despite being well researched. We have plenty of options remaining before we need to be this nitpicky.
- retrac 4y agoIt's hard to imagine an indicator that wouldn't be closely correlated with family wealth and social status. Wealth and social status are the primary means to access the things that make a person more likely to be successful! Almost any indicator you pick will end up being a proxy for those, to some degree.
- wegfawefgawefg 4y agowealth and social status could be considered proxies for iq (g)