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:( Another depressing read:
'Clark and his researchers looked at multi-generational outcomes on a variety of measures in several countries. They concluded that under many different institutional arrangements and across many time periods, the true correlation across generations in social status is somewhere between .7 and .8, which is much higher than most conventional estimates.
[...] single-generation correlations tend to under-estimate the heritability of social class. To put it another way, such correlations over-estimate social mobility.'
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'Clark and his researchers looked at multi-generational outcomes on a variety of measures in several countries. They concluded that under many different institutional arrangements and across many time periods, the true correlation across generations in social status is somewhere between .7 and .8, which is much higher than most conventional estimates.
[...] single-generation correlations tend to under-estimate the heritability of social class. To put it another way, such correlations over-estimate social mobility.'
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Arnold Kling, Heritability of Social Status | Library of Economics and Liberty
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