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SES is the most important factor in predicting success rates for students. A good Mother and/or Father is the single most important part of guaranteeing success.
Intelligence is right up there with it (i.e., they both predict about the same amount of variance in academic success), but yes!
But intelligence goes along with SES, if a mom decides to drink while she pregnant, or decides texting and getting her drink on is more important than stimulating her child.
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Agreed, there is definitely an interaction between intelligence and SES (i.e., very robust statistical interaction in the literature, and in our own studies); such that highly-intelligent people are successful in school regardless of SES; whereas lowly-intelligent people in low-SES environments do the worst, and lowly-intelligent people in high-SES environments do as well as the highly-intelligent people.
So, what are you saying about blacks? Not intelligent, or lousy home life?
Blacks and Hispanics, on average, are lower SES in comparison to Whites and Asians (in the US). No intelligence differences by ethnicity (after accounting for biases in intelligence tests).
Well, I certainly agree that a single parent or no parent home isn't ideal, and negatively affects school performance most of the time. Along with alcohol and drug using parents, teen parents, foster homes, etc.
I haven't heard mention of all those kids who come from families who can't afford lunch money for whatever reason. A hungry child will be more disruptive or a problem and can not learn.
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