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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WIPPSI + Zip code + total years of parent's education will get you a very reliable indication of IQ.  How that is used, well that's another question.  [/quote]

Don't know that IQ and zip code correlate always. Lots of hill staffers with masters degrees who are very bright and their kids same stuck in Charter schools  in District because their kids 120's IQ and 150K HHI of 2 gov't workers couldn't offer enough tangibles to DC privates. Meanwhile, lot's of 110 -120 IQ full pays being SUV'd in from McClean across the chain bridge three to the back seat every AM and PM.[/quote]

Never took a stats class, did you? Of course there's not a 100% correlation, but [b]large scale[/b] studies of IQ show that parents' education and zip code (correlates strongly with wealth) are a reliable indicator of intelligence. What you are noting is anecdotal, if it were true.[/quote]

I'm not sure 00:08 is totally correct, but I don't think you've got it quite right either.  In general, yes, parents' education correlates with both wealth and children's IQ.  But this area seems to have more than its fair share of highly educated people who are, as the PP says, working on the Hill, in government or in not-for-profits.  Just because the pay stinks on the Hill, or at the Energy Department, or at Habitat for Humanity, doesn't mean that these parents are unintelligent, or that their kids are unintelligent.

The point the PP made, which you missed, is that even two government workers earning $120K each are going to have to stretch to afford an area private.  Therefore they aren't going to be very attractive to schools looking for more donors, who may take a handful of such families, but will turn down the rest.  (Although good use of the subjunctive in the last clause!)[/quote]

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