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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The US is unarguably less meritocratic than the amalgamated EU by every possible metric… unless your conception of a ‘meritocracy’ is ‘you have to be a genius to even stand a chance at doing better than your parents, otherwise, all that matters is how much wealth you were born into.’

Okay but then how do you reconcile the study you presented with what you are arguing now? Either the study you cited above is poorly constructed and the results aren't reliable, or what you argue now is incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I literally already told you:

Here in the US, we only have downward class mobility, unless you are very, very clever, and continuously lucky, continuously reinvesting those gains from your cleverness into social and financial capital without making any 'bad investments', or ever having any sudden medical or financial disaster happen to you.

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It is entirely possible for the IQ coefficient of life SES status to be higher in the US than in the EU, and for overall social class mobility to be better in the EU.

These are in no way contradictory.

If 10 out of 100 people of say >115 IQ in the US do better in life than their parents...

But 30 out of 100 people of >105 IQ in the EU do better in life than their parents...

Then the EU has better overall social class mobility, and IQ is less strongly correlated with SES improvement, than in the US.

This is literally what a statistics teacher would call a 'trivial' example, because of how basic and obvious it is.

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Measuring the factors that go into SES shifting is completely different from measuring how many people SES shift.

How many people do a thing?

...is not the same question as...

What kind of people do a thing?

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Honestly, if you don't understand that this is possible, that this is an entirely non contradictory scenario...

Then its pretty clear you do not have any sufficient training in statistics, that you are not actually capable of having a meaningfully informed opinion on any of this.

It would take me too long to teach you, and I am used to being paid for my time when it comes to using my Econ degree with a specialization in Econometrics.

Go take a Kahn Academy course or sign up at your local community college or something.