Wow, turns out the people accused of being “racist” were right all along
The Bell Curve lives.
For one thing, the smart ones stay in school, work hard, get it together, and succeed.
Another way of saying it is:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The rich are different than you and me.”
Ernest Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”
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.
We can’t have this discussion because it’s raaaaaacist!!
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.
The same with.../less intelligent people, except in reverse.
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
Is that you, Sherlock?
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.”
Underachievers can at least marry well. ;-)
I’m old enough to remember when knowing this made you “racist.”
“You don’t say”
They are certainly trying not to.
But we know.
“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. “
Gee! What a surprise!
anybody with any sense already knew all of this ...
i worked most of my career with a group of VERY VERY smart people, and every once in while a couple would get married and produce mind-blowingly intelligent offspring ...
I don’t know. I saw a definitive study where they took a poor black hoodlum and a rich white educated man and flipped their positions.
The poor black man succeeded in the white man’s position but the white man struggled with being in the poor black man’s position in life.
Fortunately it worked out well for both in the end.
😉
We have a lot of engineers in our line and since my mother was adopted we didn’t find out some of this until we found her biological family. We have computer, civil, mechanical engineers and my cousin is Doug Bergum, now the Secretary of the Interior. It was amazing to realize the similarity between two groups of the same family that had been separated.