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Speak to some older immigrants who grew up in a rural area of some poor country where schooling just wasn't a thing. There's so many basic concepts they just d
by AussieWog93 4y ago
Speak to some older immigrants who grew up in a rural area of some poor country where schooling just wasn't a thing.
There's so many basic concepts they just don't grasp, and even when explained they still don't seem to understand.
That's not to say they're incapable of anything (if anything, their well-honed gut instincts outperform some modern disembodied intellectuals), there's just huge holes in the types of formal thinking that show up on IQ tests.
- lynx23 4y agoI dont have to speak to "imigrants who grew up in poor countries", we have enough simple people in rural areas who never developed any kind of critical thinking, still, they all went through the same school system. After all, we have mandatory schooling since roughly 150 years.
- alganet 4y agoSchooling has been shown to improve all kinds of intelligence way before this study, many times. What this study is showing is that genes and wealth don't boost nor nerf this effect, specifically on the 3rd to 5th grades. They make it very explicit that this result shouldn't be generalized outside of this context. You folks are reading too much on it.
- nullsense 4y ago>You folks are reading too much on it. Or perhaps just not grokking what this means: "What this study is showing is that genes and wealth don't boost nor nerf this effect, specifically on the 3rd to 5th grades."
- ttoinou 4y agoYou're comparing two situation with different wealth. In the first example, wealth used for schooling could have been better used. In the second example, wealth needs to be produced first.