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Re: IQ AND RACE. The taboo subject.
George Boggs (gboggs@atqm.advtech.uswest.com)
24 Feb 1995 16:50:37 GMT
In article <clangreh-230295204244@den_mac8.brynmawr.edu>,
clangreh@cc.brynmawr.edu (Catherine Langrehr) wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > True. They don't *necessarily* make less money. But income and IQ are
> > correlated. The correlation is actually fairly low, but positive.
> >
> The maxim "correlation does not imply causation" applies here. All sorts of
> things can be correlated positively, even strongly positively, with no
> causal relationship between them at all.
I am aware of this "maxim", and imputed no causation. I merely clarifed
that correlation does not lead to deterministic outcomes. However, I
cannot say the same for you, since in the very next sentences, you use the
same correlation to infer causation with straw theory that is patently
absurd - e.g., are you suggesting that, say, a sucessful physician/parent
who works 14-hour days has more free (i.e., leisure) time than an
unemployed welfare mother? More money, perhaps, but more time?? And, in
your model of intelligence, are money and time fungible?
> I'd say, myself, that if there
> _is_ causation in this situation, it's the other way around- wealthier
> people have more leisure time and more resources to enrich their own and
> their children's environment.[...]
G. Boggs
gboggs@advtech.uswest.com I'd rather be rich than stupid.
J. Handey
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