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[quote=Anonymous]Children born into poverty do not start out less intelligent but can have lower IQ because children born into poverty wind up as adults (as a group) having faced more obstacles (or, conversely, having faced fewer advantages).

That's hard to answer in an absolute way, because all methods of defining intelligence are sharply limited. Yes, there is a statistical correlation between IQ and wealth, but IQ is not an absolute quantity. Despite outdated claims, IQ is not set at birth, it tends to rise with additional education. Poor people tend to have less access to good education, and poorly educated people are more likely to be poor, which contributes to low IQ scores.
 
So, yes, by most traditional measures of intelligence, rich people are more intelligent than poor people on the average. But traditional measures of intelligence are driven by environment. The average American child in the 1920's would score about 70 on modern IQ tests. This is not because our grandparents were dumb, it's because they weren't raised to think in a way that would let them score well on IQ tests. The same people, raised in a different environment, would score much higher.[/quote]

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