<p>^^ Well, things like cultural cognition are what genuinely fascinates me about the social sciences. The nice, heady projects. </p>
<p>Taken at face value, Beliavsky’s post is (maybe inadvertently)suggesting a positive to affirmative action: get the parents college degrees, even elite degrees…and raise their kids’ IQs. </p>
<p>Of course, I think much more is involved in the IQ discussion- and AA. And, in the end, the IQ may not matter as much as what you do with it- including many occupations that serve the greater good (or some defensible good) but have nothing to do with acquiring wealth.</p>
<p>If you want to leave out poor kids, just campaign against finaid. But then you’d be back to the complaints about all those white LAXbros dominating elite instutions and heading off to be wealthy and powerful on their own, in their narrow paths.</p>