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[quote=Anonymous]Intelligence is not uniformly distributed in the human race. That is just a fact, but it makes people very uncomfortable. Just as not everybody has the same height, not everybody is of the same intelligence and there are group differences in IQ also. This is not some "right wing" nut job theory. These facts are fairly well substantiated.

In the pre-industrial era, it really did not matter how intelligent you were. There wasn't much you could do with your high IQ. You still were doing about the same stuff that your low IQ neighbor was doing, but today.....

There is an IQ premium and it shows. As Steven Pinker points out, higher IQ folks get richer, stay married and have lower crime rates. Their kids reap those advantages and some land up in private schools.

You can hate them all you want, but this gap is only going to widen. You are not going to be able to flatten the results of differing IQ no matter how hard you try. Wealth, the privilege from it and better academic profiles are a result of higher IQ not the other way around. This eats at the soul of "woke liberals" because it just crushes their 'socialist mindset" that races and gender differences are all cultural constructs. They are not.

Pointing that out does not make a person racist or sexist.

Elite schools have limited seats. Wasting their resources on mismatched kids in the name of "leveling the playing field" is a gross waste of resources, specially when there are so many good schools the people who don't fit the profile can go to and get a decent education. There is no shame in going to a second or third tier school, if you profile matches to those schools. This insistence that we use "Holistic admissions" to push unprepared and "clearly unqualified" kids into elite schools, so that some white administrators can feel good about themselves  is actually hurting these kids.

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