Re: Private Schools Seek to Stick to Their Own Standards

[Rick Parkany <rparkany@BORG.COM>]

George: perhaps parental income is just a proxy indicator of an underlying
construct that CAN explain the correlation. This construct might be social class
and economic status, as many this list have indicated. New Money, alone, never
gets the Nouveau Riche into Choate < http://www.choate.edu/ >, does it?--just
ask Jeb Clampette...    ;-} rap.

George K. Cunningham wrote:

> You need to be careful here.  Correlations do not tell us anthing about
> causes.  SAT scores correlate substantially with parental income as do all
> standardized cognitive tests.  What is not known is why.  Parental income in
> itself cannot raise test scores.  The children of winners of lotteries do
> not experience an increase in their scores.
>

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