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Comment author: CarlShulman 08 April 2013 11:41:53PM 19 points [-]

in fact, if you were to rank all of the factors possible in determining a person's lifetime earnings, the factor at the top would be whether you took Algebra in 8th grade

Citation needed, especially for a claim of causality.

Comment author: Decius 11 April 2013 03:42:57AM 0 points [-]

I would settle for a correlation which was stronger than "whether you wanted to take Algebra in the 8th grade".

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