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That is literally the definition of the word correlation. Claiming 'intellectual dishonesty' is a nice rhetorical move but doesnt actually show anything. The point remains.

A second point above which needs addressing is that it simply does not follow logically that differences in outcome must be a result of 'social inefficiencies and failures.' Culture and biology are some other obvious causative factors, but there are others. There is no reason to adhere to a reductionist view in which everything is caused by social pressures.