from Section 7 - Societal and Ethical Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2020
This final chapter opens with two quotes that, on the surface, do not seem to have much to do with intelligence. The quote from Collins (1979) is a claim that almost every job is within the grasp of most adults, while Medved supports the “success sequence” (first labeled as such by Haskins & Sawhill, 2009) of life choices that some have suggested is a key to staying out of poverty. But the two quotes share an underlying assumption that almost everybody in society has the intelligence to learn, plan, and reason sufficiently well to achieve economic success.
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