There is a strong possibility that claiming IQ predicts success is akin to saying "A metric that measures traits specifically relevant to success in our society predicts success in our society".

The man who wrote the book claiming intelligence explains all success...

I don't blame him for "glossing over" POC. He has done enough damage writing about us, over the years.

I get the sense that fetishes, as a general rule, are more prevalent in males. From the repugnant to the innocuous to the bizarre.

Blame the Supreme Court for what, exactly?

"Still young career" is the one defensible part — they're talking about her career as a Supreme Court justice.

Thank you. Honestly, I have a very good life and got a great education, and nobody is automatically entitled to be admitted to every Ivy League school. The discriminatory policies just bother me in the abstract, because they are so blatant and schools are so unapologetic about them. The aversion to "too many…

I personally think that we as a society are undertaxed as a general rule

This is firsthand experience. My SAT scores were excellent (>99th percentile). As it happens, I was rejected by two Ivies.

For a first-generation immigrant from Taiwan, do you think the same SAT score would have opened the same doors?

Even if you add Chicago and Northwestern, the net effect is the same. And speaking of Northwestern: Here's a research paper by a Kellogg professor that makes basically the same point I and others ITT have made about the effect of culture on the hiring process, and why putting McDonalds on your resume might not be…

I guess if I were called upon to list elite universities, I'd list the ivies + Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Duke, perhaps Georgetown, and maybe some smaller liberal arts colleges (not technically universities, but whatever) like Williams and Amherst.

It's making fun of how the Redskins name is offensive to Native Americans (and rightfully so)

Nope. Re-read. The rest of my advice to Joe is friendly, and it's capped off with the separate observation that he sounds like a passive aggressive twat. You can tell it's separate because I say things like "Notwithstanding the above."

It's not that America is only worth experiencing on the coasts. It's that anxieties felt by working class kids attending elite universities and applying for jobs out of same — anxieties which are, after all, the topic of this thread — tend to be experienced on the coasts. (Or, really, in a few distinct metro areas…

What did you feel was condescending about it? I thought her entire approach to this thread was condescending. "You Gawker commenters think Ivy League degrees and wealth impress employers; that's only because you're mystically deluded fools who don't understand Real America."

Most of my advice to Joe is intended as friendly mentor-type advice. I put myself through school, tyvm, and have stood in Joe's shoes.

I chose an arbitrary city in Ohio (which I'd previously chosen as an arbitrary non-coastal state). I have not given any thought to where you might live.

Au contraire — you came here to school us, remember? Our mystical, irrational fixation on elite universities (in a thread about "Elite Universit[ies]") and coastal job markets blinds us to the only real reality, your off-coast reality, conveniently embodied in anecdata about your kids.

It wasn't a burn — there is nothing wrong with Ohio. You lecture us for focusing on markets like New York rather than so-called flyover country ("reality off the coasts"), and my point remains simply that the flyover job market has minimal (if any) relevance to this discussion.