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And parental education, race, and household income are also all correlated with one another... And the paper you cited makes the point that the correlation betw

And parental education, race, and household income are also all correlated with one another... And the paper you cited makes the point that the correlation between socioeconomic background and test scores has increased substantially since 1995. This is not the gotcha that you think it is.

thaumasiotes 2y ago
> And parental education, race, and household income are also all correlated with one another... That's true. > This is not the gotcha that you think it is. But your point makes the guy I'm responding to look much worse. After controlling for parental education, the effect of parental income is radically diminished. Most of that 0.36 correlation is just confounding. Parental education isn't even a great indicator itself; it's a proxy for intelligence. It's just a much better proxy than parental income is.