"each point increase in IQ test scores raises income by between $234 and $616 per year"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289607...
and conscientiousness may even trump IQ when it comes to SES
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/06/does_personalit....
I know this is HN and we love to point and shout the names of informal fallacies, but maybe learning some formal ones would be useful, too.
If you are going to make a blanket statement in your thesis then pull back from its correctness then best not to spout the original as hard truth
But that better educated make more money
Get back to me when society stops tilted the economic success playing field against poor people, and offers them the same welfare we give the rich
Until then this 36 yr old, born and raised in a trailer park, college dropout with enough assets now to only have to work part time on contracts that interest me, while living in a city with higher than average cost of living, will call bs