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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Economist here.  COntrolling for income in these studies is probably inadequate, as wealth may be more important than income in determining where a family can buy a house, what opportunities they have etc.  An AA and a white family with similar incomes may have very different wealth levels.  If you control for family wealth, the test score gap tends to go away.  (See Conley, "Being Black, Living in the Red"; Thomas and Shapiro, "Black Welath, White Wealth")[/quote]
NP.  I just skimmed the Conley piece, and while it has interesting discussions of the wealth gap, I did not see anything about correlations between income, wealth, and academic test scores.

To be clear, my working assumption too is that skin color and racial heritage are just meaningless cosmetic elements, and so have no causal relationship with academics and intelligence, and that any seeming correlation must result from some other independent variable or other such indirect factor.  But your cited sources don't seem to rebut PP's articles and statistics that suggest race is correlated to poor academic results.[/quote]

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