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.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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Looks like there’s some other Factor X (in orange) not accounted for in the data.
Y’know, like, rich parents, stable household, access to resources, and opportunities, etc
kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of the marshmallow test:
locusmag.com/…/cory-doctorow-marshmallow-longterm…
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Very interesting. I imagine an even simpler explanation for why poorer kids do less well in school:
You simply can’t focus on abstract thoughts if you’re lacking basic ingredients in your life.
It’s something like the pyramid of needs:
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When you’re hungry in school because you didn’t have proper breakfast because your parents had too little time to prepare one or were unable to actually buy proper-quality ingredients, your brain simply can’t focus on geography of the other end of the world or god forbid, calculus.
I guess that if schoolkids were given free meals before school and during midday break, their performance in school-related activity would improve by at least 50% in poorer regions.
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I genuinely thought that was the point of this graph. The logarithmic function in blue very clearly shows there is a limit as to what IQ alone will net you.
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 2 weeks ago
People will look at the same graph and come up with different explanations. I personally agree with your interpretation.
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Not only that, on the other end of the graph it is known that poverty is a great stressor requiring constant mental bandwidth - that therefore can’t see used to “be smart”. So poorer people are not less smart, they allocated their mental resources to take care of their situation first and only later try to look smart in the test.