>You have to ask yourself, what is more important to your average impoverished american? a 50-100 dollar a month difference in family food/medical expenses, or

>You have to ask yourself, what is more important to your average impoverished american? a 50-100 dollar a month difference in family food/medical expenses, or a tenuous, debatable 0.2-1 point IQ difference out of an atlantic article talking about a single study? Now, assuming for a moment that the study is right, and that this is focused on a small subset of the population and thus we are talking a one-point drop,[1] as far as outcomes on an individual's life go, you have diminishing marginal returns on IQ.[2] The point here being that a small increase in intelligence is going to help someone that is significantly below average much more than it is going to help someone that is already significantly above average, when you measure outcomes in things like income. [1]I think speaking of IQ say, in deviation from the mean or percentile or something like that gives you a better handle on what's going on than "IQ points" though I read now that the two are convertible. [2]http://web.archive.org/web/20060521185816/http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/24538/page/4 http://web.archive.org/web/20060521185816/http://www.america...