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Lumifer comments on Forecasting and recursive Inhibition within a decision cycle - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 04:42:25PM *  2 points [-]

Well, it depends on what you're interested in. Educational attainment and IQ are correlated, so if you control for one, any of the two, the effect of the other one lessens.

I would argue that IQ is more important since it causes the educational attainment and not vice versa.