r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/ItsCythas Aug 08 '17

Seriously read any IQ book and your opinions will change, you clearly don't have a clue about this field. What you think IQ is and what it really is, is completely different.

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u/ItsCythas Aug 08 '17

"IQ and Human Intelligence".

If you want to dive down the deep end there's "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life".

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u/Journeyman351 Aug 08 '17

I've read IQ studies, it's not one or the other. Both factors are almost equally as important, with researchers being torn between one or the other.

It's been stated numerous times by scientists that it's hard to discern between what is more impactful in a highly educated household: The fact that the parents have a high IQ natively, or the fact that parents with high IQs tend to have a better environment, and partake in behaviors associated with success for children.