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[quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately these last few posts mis-read what the original post (IQ = zip code + WIPPSI + total years of parent's education) was actually saying.  A child's IQ doesn't dictate that that child [i]will [/i]go to a Top-Whatever school.  Thus, regardless of what others here may think, publics and charters will have their fair share of high-IQ kids, while top-ranked privates will have their fair share of average-IQ kids.  00:08 sets up the false equivalence that a high IQ kid will [i]always [/i]go to a top-ranked private.  Whether a particular school accepts a particular child is in most cases only tangentially related to IQ, as evidenced by this discussion before it was bumped in 2011.  Whether a particular parent chooses to send their child to a particular school has even less to do with that child's IQ.

Of course, whether IQ is actually a useful measure of "intelligence" is a debate that has been raging for generations, as has the "nature vs. nurture" argument.  But that's a completely separate debate.[/quote]

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