BBC unfortunately still has plenty of elitist or colonial shade. Articles showing most news from other countries in poor light or fault finding is its forte. Other day I was rummaging through news of 1999 about Google/Larry/Sergei. Bbc has mentioned it's a breakthrough tech but much of article was dedicated in mentioning that google only indexes only 10% of web. And the tone was on negative side. Peter thiel's rightly says that most of Western Europe only reacts to its progress.
Who lost the most marks when cheating was stopped?
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Re: Who lost the most marks when cheating was stopped?
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A moderate inheritance plus support during your education may well make or break your life's outcome vs someone born to a poor family. 'Inheritance' doesn't have to mean just what was passed down at death - it must also include all the additional resources available during development to have any meaning.
But it doesn't! That's the point. Otherwise the lottery winners kids would be better off since they could go to better schools and afford college. In general there's little evidence that education makes any difference at all.
Seriously, your lottery winners example is meaningless.
But if you are saying that education makes little difference to lifetime earnings, you're going to have to back that up with a reference because it's an extraordinary claim.
Re: Who lost the most marks when cheating was stopped?
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If intelligence matters at all to making money, the wealth + intelligence combo probably beats wealth on its own. Unless, of course, intelligence is "bad" for the wealthy and "good" for the poor, but I doubt that's the case...
Sure - wealth + intelligence can be highly lucrative e.g. Bill Gates But intelligence without wealth can easily be beaten by average intelligence plus wealth and status. E.g. Trump
Just to be clear - I'm comparing two billionaires who started off as millionaires, and suggesting that Gates is of above average intelligence whereas Trump is not.