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Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: New research published in the journal Psychological Science (abstract) found that children who grow up in poverty within the United States tend to have lower IQs than peers from other socioeconomic brackets. Previous studies have shown a complex relationship between a child's genetics, his environment, and his IQ. Your genes can't pinpoint your IQ, but they can indicate a rough range of values within which your IQ is quite likely to fall. For kids in poverty, they seem to consistently end up on the low end of that window. Interestingly, this effect was not seen for any of the other countries hosting kids within the study, which included Australia, Germany, England, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The study authors speculate that "inequalities in educational and medical access in the U.S." may be the root of the differences, though another researcher is planning to study the effect of school environments as well.
If America is the only country where poor people end up testing at the lower end of the IQ range, that means that, in the aggregate, the poor will pull down the country's average IQ. That, of course, explains Fox News, Honey BooBoo, and the current Republican candidates for president.
While the authors speculate that inequalities in educational and medical access in the US may beef up poverty’s effects, Turkheimer thinks school environments in particular may be to blame. He plans to follow up on the findings in his own work.
You might want to stop screwing around with your schools, teaching to the test, and replace the patchwork of medical coverage with universal single-payer for your own good.
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'Cause they don't have teachers' unions in Sweden.
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100% totally and completely false. Your environment and what you are exposed to has a far larger impact than genes do. Bad water, bad air, bad nutrition, bad living conditions stunt brain growth or even heavy metal poisoning severely destroy a child's brain and ability to learn. Those factors are 50 times more important in determining a person's ability to learn than genetics.
Nobody rich lives in Flint michigan, but guess what city of the poor was just nailed for poisoning the children of an ENTIRE CITY with lead in the water..... all of those kids are 100% fucked for the rest of their life because of the greedy rich asshole fuckheads that made decisions they had no right making.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
No. The _potential_ for intelligence is inherited. If you don't exercise it then you won't get it - that's also pretty clear.
As for reality not conforming to your prejudices... There's a _reason_ most academics are left-leaning. Right-wingers are simply not smart enough. Duh.