<p>bengolub, all I am saying is let’s not conclude IQ differences are due to environment/SES or that they are due to genetics just yet. RE the findings of Murray and Jensen they in fact concluded the why of the differences and to me that is more persuasive at the moment.</p>
<p>collegealum, you make reasonable points, that usually for the one who does research rest of apps is bulletproof. I was most probably referrring to geographic advantages, like some neighborhoods nowhere near a college lab and disadvantages in that some high schools have faculty more geared toward prepping kids for research and others not so good at encouraging. I mean the culture of the high school. There are schools in NJ who are all chanting Intel from grade 1 and schools where they don’t know what it is all about.</p>
<p>AshwinS, you are the typical product of an Asian Indian home, especially if one parent happens to be from IIT. I know of one couple who are so so so disappointed their son , in 8th grade has not yet mastered differential equations and linear algebra. Study Elizabethan drama, the Tang dynasty and other such areas, life will work out. Education is not to make men into carpenters but to make carpenters into men. We were not born to satisfy MIT, MIT was created to satisfy some of us in some aspects.</p>