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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Do you have a source for this?
It's not a matter of deserving. But from what I've read on the subject, these factors correlate strongly to social outcomes:
Marriage status of parents
Education of parents
Affluence of parents
Impulse control
Cultural valuation of education
IQ
Peer group
If you have the time, do give a listen to the CBC interview I linked to - it deals with some of this stuff.
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But those first three factors are strongly correlated with economic status and therefore, in some cases, also with race or gender etc.
So it all seems very complex to me...