Originally Posted by Bostonian
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Maybe some exceptional homes provide the other kind of environment at paradoxical income levels. Wealthy but abusive homes, or impoverished but stable/supportive/loving ones, I mean. That would explain outliers far better than social Darwinism would predict, because they seem to occur in the same kinds of rates that are observable for abuse, KWIM?

Social Darwinism is a pejorative name for a political philosophy, coined by its opponents. To what extent SES and IQ are correlated is a scientific question. I don't think you should use "Social Darwinism" to describe informed views about science. I can think of a poster whose views about IQ overlap considerably with mine but whose politics are very different.

You can believe that the poor are poor largely because of their genes and
(1) Support anti-poverty programs because poverty is not their fault.
(2) Oppose anti-poverty program for Social Darwinist reasons.

That is true. My apologies for the use of the term.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.