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Equality & Envy

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Mirage of Equality

More than half of National Merit Scholarship finalists were firstborns, even in five child families. IQ differences among siblings translated into income differences comparable to those between unrelated individuals with different IQs. With the equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions? Soil goes into this topic in more depth in other books, but it's a fascinating line of inquiry which might make people uncomfortable.

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