No test measures intelligence. A test only measures you relative to the persons that wrote the test. – loosely quoting Asimov.
2007 is ancient history now. It is an interesting graph that one might correlate with a lack of meritocratic structure in society, but I’m on the low end cause I say this without looking up and reading the study. Pretty pictures evoke emotional blabbering bias and all that.
Yeah, I disagree with your assessment. You’re acting like oh there are only a few of them, but they control like 90% of the wealth in the world. How many billions of dollars do you think go into a single research topic? I’d also like to point out that it’s uber rich people who also make the decisions. I can’t prove that corporations prefer NOT to have a cure for diseases, because they make more money treating them, but I’m pretty sure IF they do, it ain’t a poor person making that decision.
For this research it doesn’t matter how much wealth they control if it’s not even a suburb sized group of people globally who are billionaires, median income for ethical vs inethical groups would probably not move any statistically significant amount
I think you’re missing the point.
I know you want to complain about unethical billionaires but the point here is about looking for a trend between ethics and income, not prevalence of unethical behaviour amongst billionaires
No the trend was about unethical behavior and billionaires, not income. And that trend is close to 100%.