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Originally Posted by Manx
I understood that to be what you meant. And my bet still stands.You just changed the result.
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The result changed because the the Waller study is an additional source of evidence. Its results are different, but complimentary to the other sources of evidence I mention earlier.
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Originally Posted by Manx
We're not talking about improvement over ones parents' SES - we're talking some degree of parity with upper class. IQ is very rarely going to take someone from the poorest family to significant wealth - though it likely would result in an some degree of increase in SES.
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I still say that if you control for IQ, SES doesn't predict as much variance as IQ controlled for SES... but it doesn't look like we will resolve this.
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Originally Posted by RangerDick
So THAT'S the soution. If only poor people and rich people socialized more, poor people would receive more money?
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I don't think that getting poor people and rich people together for block parties regularly is going to equalize economic differences (that's a caricature, of course). It would have to be a massive, fundamental environmental intervention (like adoption). Even in such a case, I think class differences would eventually emerge again.