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teamonkey
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Famous cognitive psychology experiments that faile...
Yes, it’s almost certainly linked to quality of schooling and exposure to those types of problems, amongst other things, see the Flynn Effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
3cKU
17 days ago
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Access to schooling etc can't be the whole story: "black students from prosperous families tend to score higher in IQ than blacks from poor families, but they score no higher, on average, than whites from poor families".
tptacek
16 days ago
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So IQ is malleable and SES-dependent and GxE interactions are real.
3cKU
16 days ago
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No. The first part of that quote is consistent with any hypothesis (G only, E only, G&E), i.e. cannot distinguish between them.
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