Brilliant paper. No meaningful difference in cognitive ability between Black & white children at age 8 mos.

Even without controlling for income, home/prenatal conditions, etc.

Yet “deep roots” literature in econ. development still asserts genes substantially determine poverty. https://twitter.com/vc31415/status/1297200963028041728
The assertion has appeared unchallenged in the top journals of economics. Unfortunate for the whole discipline.
Always fun when the racist IQ dark web quote-tweets you to invite their festering swarm to spit demonstrations of their own IQ shortage. Next time I tweet about research involving race, I’ll be sure to turn on ‘no replies’.
I can tell the proud, anonymous accounts of the racist IQ dark web cherish the idea that the Wilson Effect—rising heritability of IQ with age—somehow refutes this empirical finding.
Confirming across the distribution earlier results using only the first moment of the distribution, in @AEAjournals seven years back —> http://doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.2.981
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