> two characteristics that Guardian writers naturally have a blind-spot for; being smart and working very, very hard.
Only in the sense that Trofim Lysenko had a "blind spot" for Darwinism. Despite the Big Five personality traits being 40-60% heritable [1], and adult IQ 80% heritable [2], The Guardian simply rejects this evidence - from the article:
So either talent is hugely unequally distributed, concentrated among richer families, or opportunity is. It’s the latter.
That's leaving aside how upbringing is completely omitted as a factor - we are supposed to simply consider it "unfair" that e.g. the best blacksmiths were the sons of blacksmiths.
Only in the sense that Trofim Lysenko had a "blind spot" for Darwinism. Despite the Big Five personality traits being 40-60% heritable [1], and adult IQ 80% heritable [2], The Guardian simply rejects this evidence - from the article:
So either talent is hugely unequally distributed, concentrated among richer families, or opportunity is. It’s the latter.
That's leaving aside how upbringing is completely omitted as a factor - we are supposed to simply consider it "unfair" that e.g. the best blacksmiths were the sons of blacksmiths.
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5068715/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ