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Looks like a copy of the chart available here: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/200

Looks like a copy of the chart available here: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-... That post created a lot of debate a couple of months ago which was summarized here: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/08/the-inheritance-of-education.html http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/08... The chart on that second page appears to show that "higher parental income predicts higher child income but only for biological children and not for adoptees."

tokenadult 17y ago
The primary source for the self-reported SAT and income band correlations, http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/cbs-2009-national-TOTAL-GROUP.pdf http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/cbs-2009-... the annual College Board report for class of 2009, is linked to from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=908779 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=908779 along with links to other SAT data reports.