| ▲ | valleyer an hour ago |
| Your analogy works against you, given that tons of professional athletes come from poverty. |
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| ▲ | ceejayoz an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Professional athletes are like people who get 1600s on the SAT; a bit of an outlier. |
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| ▲ | Aarostotle 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | That's exactly the point. Top schools are looking for outlier intellectual talent, but the egalitarian approach (high school grade inflation plus weakening of standardized testing) smooths the differences and makes it harder for them to admit the right people. The visible result has been the weakening of these institutions. Do also observe that this is recursive — as these institutions have lowered their standards over decades, the people who go through them and end up leading them are weaker, too. | | |
| ▲ | t0mpr1c3 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | We're talking about the California state education system here. They do not have the option to restrict the provision of their services to a tiny elite. The concerns of "top schools" absorbs altogether too much oxygen. | |
| ▲ | ceejayoz 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Top schools are looking for outlier intellectual talent… Eh, somewhat. They want some of those outliers hobnobbing with the legacies. |
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| ▲ | rixed 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| According to IA this is mostly a myth though. |
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| ▲ | BigTTYGothGF 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > tons of professional athletes come from poverty Is that actually the case? |
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| ▲ | xhkkffbf 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Read up on Kobe Bryant or Bronny James. | |
| ▲ | ptek 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Depends on the sport. I don’t think the Olympic equestrian competitors would be dirt poor. |
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