> So really what it says is that you have a much better shot in life being educated regardless of who you are.
Not quite. All it says that the people who are able to do well in school also are able to do well in the workplace.
If you want to try and derive causation here, the simplest and most reasonable explanation is that the qualities that allowed them to do well in school are also what allowed them to do well in the workplace. It does not seem shocking at all to think that those who have drive, desire, ability, etc. perform better in everything they do, be it education or the workplace.
The idea that schooling magically turns you into a new person able to finally succeed for the first time seems like a huge stretch.
That's better. There is some back-and-forth between the how much drive one has correlated with how far can one get in education, but I totally agree that you have a more direct narrative of what the paper claims.
Not quite. All it says that the people who are able to do well in school also are able to do well in the workplace.
If you want to try and derive causation here, the simplest and most reasonable explanation is that the qualities that allowed them to do well in school are also what allowed them to do well in the workplace. It does not seem shocking at all to think that those who have drive, desire, ability, etc. perform better in everything they do, be it education or the workplace.
The idea that schooling magically turns you into a new person able to finally succeed for the first time seems like a huge stretch.