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by staticman2 1355 days ago
Which is neither here nor there.

If you don't understand that the child of a lawyer will be encouraged or pressured into going into law, and therefore staying in the socioeconomic group, you'll overrate genetic factors.

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The genetic factors estimates come only from adoption data, and there are studies that condition further on things like adoptive parent material conditions. The researchers are not dumb; they have put some thought into it.
One of the first results on google scholar that came up when I checked into your claims is a recent study that contradicts everything you wrote here. (Since you never cited anything I won't either.)

At a minimum, this topic is more complicated than you think, and you aren't using the correct statistical terminology when you discuss it.