SOCIAL STATUS IS AS HERITABLE AS ANY BIOLOGICAL TRAIT (because our social status

SOCIAL STATUS IS AS HERITABLE AS ANY BIOLOGICAL TRAIT

(because our social status is a reflection of our biological properties.)

—“…overall social mobility rates are much lower than those typically estimated by sociologists or economists. The intergenerational correlation in all the societies for which we construct surname estimates — medieval England, modern England, the United States, India, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Chile, and even egalitarian Sweden — is between 0.7 and 0.9, much higher than conventionally estimated. Social status is inherited as strongly as any biological trait, such as height.” — Gregory Clark, _The Son Also Rises_

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