Genetic factors drive the link between cognitive ability and socioeconomic status

Pay Post ^ | 3-10-26 | Eric Dolan

[MarlonRando]

A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests that the connection between a young adult’s cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes. The findings provide evidence that genetic factors play a larger role in educational and occupational success than environmental conditions. This underlying biology may help explain why some social interventions aimed at reducing inequality tend to fall short over the long term.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Humor
KEYWORDS: eugenics; fakenews; iq; nlz; zot

[MarlonRando]

You don’t say…

[mitchjackson1972]

Wow, turns out the people accused of being “racist” were right all along

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Two words:

1. Ashkenazi

2. Jews

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Bell Curve lives.

[Oystir]

Bingo

[Savage Beast]

The smarter you are, the better you'll do in life. Surprise!

For one thing, the smart ones stay in school, work hard, get it together, and succeed.

Another way of saying it is:

"Life's tough. It's tougher when you're stupid."
John Wayne

[frank ballenger]

F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The rich are different than you and me.”

Ernest Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”

[Varda]

“The sample included 440 twin pairs, consisting of 228 identical twin pairs and 212 fraternal same-sex twin pairs.”

So the study controlled for the most important variables ie. Nutrition before and after birth and up bringing environment.

In that situation, genetics will be the difference. This is what I was taught 40 years ago. I suppose its nice to get conformation of the obvious.

[Jamestown1630]

That’s not genes. It’s training and character.

[T.B. Yoits]

From 1994...

[Locomotive Breath]

We can’t have this discussion because it’s raaaaaacist!!

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe that Thomas Kuhn’s work (1962) on scientific revolutions stated that no one really gets “persuaded” to accept the new ideas. Basically, the Old Believers age out and die and their core beliefs disappear. Younger people grow up with the new ideas and accept them as fact.

“The Bell Curve” came out in 1994. It was “controversial”. But here we are 30 years later, many of the nay-sayers are dead, and a lot of people today are “fatigued”. Maybe there will be a bit more acceptance that some groups tend to have a hard time achieving excellence.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The corollary to this is that the disparity is likely to be work. Intelligent and successful people are more likely to select intelligent and successful mates, and produce even more intelligent children.

The same with.../less intelligent people, except in reverse.

[SauronOfMordor]

Look at Minnesota Trans-Racial Adoption Study, involving black babies adopted in infancy into white middle-class families and going to middle class schools.

At age 17, the black kids IQ scores were like their biological parents, no improvement from environment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption_Study

[ComputerGuy]

Is that you, Sherlock?

[Veto!]

My dad couldn’t afford to finish high school, yet I grew up in the best neighborhood in the 7th wealthiest suburb in the US. One neighbor was Charles Kettering, son of the founder of General Motors, and his daughter was my friend.

Blows the statistics to hell, doesn’t it? Dad always liked doing that :}

[DeplorablePaul]

One word: Bell Curve

“The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a controversial 1994 book by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray that argues intelligence (measured by IQ) is a key predictor of social outcomes like income, job performance, and crime, and that society is stratifying into a cognitive elite and an underclass.”

[cgbg]

“Basically, the Old Believers age out and die and their core beliefs disappear.”

Great book.

The core beliefs of “normals” a hundred years ago would blow people away today.

In another hundred years the “normals” may be worshiping icons of Unicorns.

[Veto!]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,”At age 17, the black kids IQ scores were like their biological parents”

Too bad for most of them. My terrific MD is Black, so his parents must have been smart too. He’s from Nigeria, wasn’t hampered by any kind of pre-judgement AKA prejudice.

[Jamestown1630]

There are many reasons why ‘some groups’ have a harder time.

I don’t believe that genes necessarily present one of them, except in cases of obvious genetic defects.

Regardless of genes, a child deprived of certain environmental influences and decent education is not going to do as well as he might have done with the benefit of those.

The idea that our genes have so much power is a really vicious and self-limiting belief; not to mention a very materialistic one.