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and wealth.
Read "the bell curve"
basically, smart parents were more likely to go to a higher ranking school, and move themselves up in the social heirarchy.
Smart people tend to have smart kids. Dumb people tend to have dumb kids. Hence, the scores.
For the race aspect of this, you can find the stats where poor east asian kids do better than rich white kids.At least on the math portion.
Yeah, but that only matters from a self-assessment standpoint if the causal graph is wealth --> score <-- ability, whereas for an uncoached entrant it's almost purely wealth --> ability --> score.
Fair enough.
And coaching can't make up a large part of the score difference, either. There's more than 100 points discrepancy on Critical Reading or Math alone between the lowest and highest income groups, whereas coaching only creates improvements of 30 points in Reading and Math combined.