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I'm confused. The title says parent's income affects career, the start of video says 1/4 of academics have at least one parent holding phd, the end of video say
by a_c 3y ago
I'm confused. The title says parent's income affects career, the start of video says 1/4 of academics have at least one parent holding phd, the end of video says diversity is important because it brings different way of thinking so we need different gender, race, socioeconomic status, country of origin. Feels like many things conflating together.
Anecdotally, most people who are successful in their career are either having parents in the same profession, or have parents providing secure childhood/early adult that allows them brew their career.
Programmer parents, professional music player parents, having access to computer programmer at early age, etc. The first shoulder of giants are from parents, isn't it?
- s1artibartfast 3y agoAgreed. As with many of these studies, it assumes that parental nurturing and education has no bearing on individual merit. As if a Mozart, educated in music from the age of three had the same merit as an orphan who never saw an instrument. There is a subtle bait and switch from merit (capability at time of assessment) to learning potential (at the time of conception). You might expect groups on average to have the same a potential at conception, but their merit and capability is impacted by their environment.