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0 pointsduskwuff5mo ago0 comments

DoDEA teaches the children of military families, not the enlisted themselves.

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lmm5mo ago

While it's fashionable to pretend otherwise, the best available evidence is that inheritance is highly heritable.

Correlations between socioeconomic status and success of one's offspring in educational systems don't mean that intelligence is inherited in the genetic sense. If you're seriously arguing this, you're very close to flirting with eugenics and the like.

Dylan168075mo ago

> If you're seriously arguing this, you're very close to flirting with eugenics and the like.

Please don't be so eager to reject eugenics that you end up being anti-science. The idea that some percent of intelligence is genetic is entirely reasonable, not something to refuse to consider.

And there's good evidence too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

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whimsicalism5mo ago

you seem to have taught yourself explicitly incorrect intuitions about how the world works, why? the vast majority of people know that kids resemble parents, it seems extreme to believe otherwise.

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