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> I looked at that table and immediately thought, "Those are pretty solid correlation values", so I was confused by the point you were making.

They said "highest", not "solid". Family income isn't the highest factor there.






Of course if having a brain would be on the table there would be no contest. Being the highest correlation in a rather arbitrary list is not a valid qualifier for being a good correlation.

> Of course if having a brain would be on the table there would be no contest.

Is that really what you think? In reality, the possession of a brain can't have any correlation with SAT scores at all, because there is zero variance in the trait.




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