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by estearum 2mo ago
Identical twins reared together: .85 correlation in IQ Fraternal twins reared together: .55 correlation in IQ Identical twins reared apart: .75 correlation in IQ And the genetic correlation grows as children age. No, genetic studies did n
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by estearum 2mo ago
It is by sheer chance they are the type of person to choose to work hard, that is correct.
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Look up twin studies. "Intelligence doesn't exist" is just a defense mechanism for above-average intelligence people to feel like they earned all their good outcomes. But here's the thing: even if it was all hard work an
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by estearum 2mo ago
You should read SCOTUS opinions instead of forming beliefs based on media tropes, duh.
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by estearum 2mo ago
Ah, someone didn't read the opinions. Shame. Confidence and ignorance live another day!
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Those were some of the leading candidates until twin studies and controls for familial wealth invalidated them and left us only with shminshmellishence :/
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by estearum 2mo ago
There is "something" that seems to correlate strongly with wealth, education, test scores across every subject/dimension, seems highly heritable from parents to offspring, and fits with both SAT and IQ test results. It can&#x
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by estearum 2mo ago
You should go read the United States v Jones concurrence and try to figure out why five Justices disagree with you. Have some curiosity about the world! You can also read Carpenter v United States for some background thoughts on why it&#x27
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by estearum 2mo ago
Maybe spend some more time digging into the case law amigo
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Watch out, you're gonna break these programmers' brains.
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Neither of you are correct. It's about how costly (in time, energy, money) is it to build how complete of a picture based on what level of prior suspicion?
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This is actually not how the law works. Nice try though!
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It's flagged because there are crybabies in this thread lol
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Universities are still very good investments for most people who go to them
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In theory yes, in practice it seems empirically like the answer is no. I'm not sure if it's just a vibes/branding problem or what. But yeah I think much larger and more capable community colleges and smaller universities is p
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by estearum 2mo ago
Ah, so your prior comment about productivity not driving high rents is similar to how government paying for healthcare just makes it not-expensive!
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by estearum 2mo ago
The costs would have to go down significantly. And I don't just mean the direct price to students – even public universities are extremely costly overall. It costs ~$55k/year to educate a student at UMich. That's more than ha
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by estearum 2mo ago
> Then I wait 10 years [for local productivity to increase, and then I can charge higher prices] This is the only feature that's relevant. If productivity goes up, you can charge more. If it does not, you cannot. You may do some co
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by estearum 3mo ago
When you consider the complexification of any single industry over the last 50 to 100 years, then multiply that by every single other industry, then multiply that by the newly complex interactions between industries, then consider that the
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by estearum 3mo ago
No, what's happening here is you misunderstood the quoted text, silly. The claim is not that rents are always at their optimal or most efficient level - they're not! The claim is that you cannot (at meaningful scale) charge people
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by estearum 3mo ago
The ones that aren't competitive don't have the ultra-competitive dynamics described above. Not sure what your point is. That still doesn't mean they're not "for the elites." Universities are for people strivin
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by estearum 3mo ago
You think you can make a law that sets the price of housing above local wages and stays there? No, you actually cannot do this in any lasting way. The price of land would fall to the level required to make it construction viable again. Or t
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by estearum 3mo ago
So you were responding to an assumption that's not actually in my comment? Vienna's solution is fine but has escalating costs and isn't necessary. Land Value Tax is better.
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A lot of the jobs that university is supposed to train you for require you to work very very hard for a very very long time.
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Competition continues to rise for limited higher education slots. The solution is not to get rid of the measurements we use to decide who should occupy those slots, it's to add more slots (and ideally , also create viable career/
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by estearum 3mo ago
Surely if it was wasting productive time in industry, then companies would just hire people directly out of high school, no? There's a reason they don't do that.
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Because having money is a lot better than not having money
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Yeah definitely. But "can you grind" is legitimate selection criterion for making it into the upper echelons. Not an ideal one, but it's not illegitimate.
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All universities are for the elites. I would love for that not to be the case, but the only reason admissions are this competitive is because there's competition for limited slots. And yes, certainly a (traditional) university educ
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The issue here is more complicated than just a lack of long term RCTs. It's that we're talking about psychological acclimation within individuals . Given that people's lives change so much, even within an RCT design it'

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