Originally Posted by Dude
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Can you take a birth cohort which is normed for IQ, and determine outcomes on the basis of two different measures in adoptive homes? One for SES, and one for EdAtt? I would bet that the LATTER is the more robust effect, but I don't know.

With the way college tuition has increased by double-digits annually over the course of an entire generation, with wages stagnant over the same period, are SES and EdAtt still separable at this point?

No, and increasingly inseparable, in fact. But that is more recent data-- it could be what is explaining the trend in the article, though. I wonder what that curve looked like in 1920 or 1935.

It's possible that what the trend actually shows is a RETURN to a time when educational attainment was equal to SES, and that the period from 1948 through 1980 was an anomoly due to federal programs which made SES a less crucial factor in college attendance.

Interesting idea.

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