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IQ is determined by social class
And presumably the same class differentials determines the kind of teaching they've had and the expectations of routes they can take and how long they are allowed to stay at school...
And presumably there is no class bias built into IQ tests - and who gets to take them when and who has been prepared to take them...
And presumably no one is confusing IQ with actually intelligence.
Edit:According to Bruce G. Charlton:
"The UK government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social-class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes.
"Evidence to support the allegation of systematic unfairness has never been presented. Nevertheless, the accusation has been used to fuel a populist 'class war' agenda. Yet in all this debate a simple and vital fact has been missed: higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes."
He argues: "The highly unequal class distributions seen in elite universities compared with the general population are unlikely to be due to prejudice or corruption in the admissions process. On the contrary, the observed pattern is a natural outcome of meritocracy. Indeed, anything other than very unequal outcomes would need to be a consequence of non-merit-based selection methods."
He has form. Formal education delays mental maturity - psychological neoteny. It presumably follows that the higher IQ you have the less mature you are. All those pramface mums (or whatever Channel 4 calls them) are really mature (there's a sense they have to be).
And presumably the same class differentials determines the kind of teaching they've had and the expectations of routes they can take and how long they are allowed to stay at school...
And presumably there is no class bias built into IQ tests - and who gets to take them when and who has been prepared to take them...
And presumably no one is confusing IQ with actually intelligence.
Edit:According to Bruce G. Charlton:
"The UK government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social-class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes.
"Evidence to support the allegation of systematic unfairness has never been presented. Nevertheless, the accusation has been used to fuel a populist 'class war' agenda. Yet in all this debate a simple and vital fact has been missed: higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes."
He argues: "The highly unequal class distributions seen in elite universities compared with the general population are unlikely to be due to prejudice or corruption in the admissions process. On the contrary, the observed pattern is a natural outcome of meritocracy. Indeed, anything other than very unequal outcomes would need to be a consequence of non-merit-based selection methods."
He has form. Formal education delays mental maturity - psychological neoteny. It presumably follows that the higher IQ you have the less mature you are. All those pramface mums (or whatever Channel 4 calls them) are really mature (there's a sense they have to be).
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Plus ca change....
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Please please please may his department be abolished.
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Working class people have bumpier heads...
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This defense of idiocy would fly a lot better in the US; except that intelligence is not especially valued here, most prominent example in the style of Mr Bush. It's gettin above yerself.
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