| "The data show that AFQT scores explain 21% of the variation in income betw… |
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| 21% is higher than what you'd get by looking at their families income, though. … |
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| I don't think the 1957 dataset tracked them from childhood though? 1980 would b… |
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| 21% doesn’t seem very strong tbh. That means it’s 79% not cause by IQ. |
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| The 1980 did for sure, but the 1957 dataset might also show that. |
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| Idk, I’m finding that google says that 21% of the variation in income is caused … |
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| The 1980 dataset or the 1957 dataset? |
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| Yes, but just because it matters more doesn't mean the other factors don't matt… |
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| Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. They collected demographic… |
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| Well, you’re claiming it matters more than everything else. |
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| What data specifically shows this? |
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| Education is still useful for learning skills or understanding the world, no on… |
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| I agree, and I doubt the high IQ person gets all they deserve, but the data doe… |
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| If IQ really did determine your income then what would be the point of educatio… |
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| Well obviously that’s not true. If intelligent people make better societies, th… |
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| Because academic performance is generally how we test if someone learned what t… |
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| This might come as a surprise to you, but life isn’t fair. |
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| Because intelligent people make better societies. Someone who can think cohere… |
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| Yet the USA is the most powerful country in the world. Haven’t seen a black Afri… |
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| When it comes to using one factor to predict outcomes, it's true on average tha… |
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| Just look at the president, he’s a billionaire! https://youtu.be/zP2Tnb-bSq… |
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| Then how come they came up with the concept of the g factor by noticing that so… |
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| Then how come countries that provide better education do better on IQ tests and… |
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| Obviously, that can only be true for small differences in income, if you have a… |
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| Education isn't the same thing as intelligence (g factor) that IQ measures. IQ… |
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| That's a strawman because I never said IQ was solely genetic. |
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| No, the data shows that a high IQ person from a low income family will have bet… |
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| Because think about it, why would a higher income lead to a higher IQ? Before k… |
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| In fact, Americans have scored higher on IQ tests over time as nutrition improve… |
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| The issue with the way that you think is you notice that black people are poor a… |
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| That doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about. An African goi… |
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| On average they are, the data shows that. |
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| If you are trying to filter the intelligent from the unintelligent, race is an… |
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| I already told you that there are more Chinese international students in the Uni… |
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| Blacks aren’t biologically less intelligent than whites. |
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| For example, men drink and drive at higher rates. Using gender to predict auto… |
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| Right… so what you’re saying is that just because IQ is correlated with inco… |
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| It’s not pedantic, there’s a fundamental mathematical difference between a dime… |
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| The two can be correlated and still be separate. |
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| That's just pedantic, no one is claiming the metric itself is biological, the a… |
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| How would it be possible for IQ to be better at predicting life outcomes tha… |
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| When I said IQ isn’t a thing that biologically exists, I’m actually correct abou… |
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| Then why does IQ work better at predicting life outcomes than family income or… |
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| IQ measures the G factor, and that has predictive effects on income, criminalit… |
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| That's harsh! I better be careful, sometimes I'm stoked my IP address is static… |
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| The reason why IQ was invented is because nobody has figured out a way to measur… |
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| IQ is a measure of how well you did on an IQ test relative to how well everybod… |
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| I never said intelligence doesn’t exist. I said IQ is a dimensionless metric. S… |
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| IQ is a measure of intelligence. Obviously any scale has limits, and IQ wasn't… |
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| Making a limited test doesn't mean the thing you're measuring doesn't exist. T… |
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