On: Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math

[Jensson]

> I looked at that table and immediately thought, "Those are pretty solid correlation values", so I was confused by the point you were making.

They said "highest", not "solid". Family income isn't the highest factor there.

[notTooFarGone → Jensson]

Of course if having a brain would be on the table there would be no contest. Being the highest correlation in a rather arbitrary list is not a valid qualifier for being a good correlation.

[thaumasiotes → notTooFarGone]

> Of course if having a brain would be on the table there would be no contest.

Is that really what you think? In reality, the possession of a brain can't have any correlation with SAT scores at all, because there is zero variance in the trait.