A while back, I made a post comparing people who solicit for designer donor eggs to Nazis. As always, art and humor can never find ways to be as awful as real life. Lookie what we have here from Sunday.
I do. I think that intelligence is far from the main factor that gets you into college. Income is probably an order of magnitude higher on the list.
If action X increases my hypothetical kids' chances of entering or completing college by some positive value Y and action X has no cost and no downsides, then I'm taking action X even if Y is small.
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Date: 2008-09-16 11:00 pm (UTC)You don't think that intelligence (or at least scholastic aptitude) has a genetic component?
-no use of illegal drugs, cigarettes, alcohol abuse or antidepressants
It's pretty widely documented that alcoholism and other addictive behavior have a strong genetic component, as well.
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Date: 2008-09-17 02:34 am (UTC)I do. I think that intelligence is far from the main factor that gets you into college. Income is probably an order of magnitude higher on the list.
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:46 am (UTC)If action X increases my hypothetical kids' chances of entering or completing college by some positive value Y and action X has no cost and no downsides, then I'm taking action X even if Y is small.