No test measures intelligence. A test only measures you relative to the persons that wrote the test. – loosely quoting Asimov.
2007 is ancient history now. It is an interesting graph that one might correlate with a lack of meritocratic structure in society, but I'm on the low end cause I say this without looking up and reading the study. Pretty pictures evoke emotional blabbering bias and all that.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Being rich is pretty fucking obviously mostly about being born to rich parents.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 41 minutes ago
Being smart too.
If your parents are rich you would have gone to the better funded schools with better teachers and better clubs/programs and focus on those with your stress-free lifestyle to grow up smarter.
ignotum@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I thought poor people were poor because they spend all their money on avocado toast, while rich people eat bootstraps or something like that
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
i think the rich have seen the avocado toast problem for a long time. that’s why they sell you avocado toast, because clearly it’s making you poor and they have too much of it.