Her book, and much of her research, focuses on how genes affect educational attainment, and for good reason—education and well-being are connected, especially in America… So if you’re concerned about social inequalities, you should be concerned with education.
The inflation of education requirements is due to fewer available jobs, so I’m more concerned with fixing job creation in the economy. Helping everyone send stronger pheromone signals to Mr Employer by educational attainment (measured in years) doesn’t solve anything and only makes things worse.
That’s definitely fair, though it’s plausible that some benefits of education do not depend solely on increases in income or social connections. For example, a meta-analysis by Ritchie et al. suggests that education may itself improve intelligence. I do agree, however, that more fine-grained (and more difficult to measure) metrics than “number of years of education” would help sharpen the argument.
The inflation of education requirements is due to fewer available jobs, so I’m more concerned with fixing job creation in the economy. Helping everyone send stronger pheromone signals to Mr Employer by educational attainment (measured in years) doesn’t solve anything and only makes things worse.
That’s definitely fair, though it’s plausible that some benefits of education do not depend solely on increases in income or social connections. For example, a meta-analysis by Ritchie et al. suggests that education may itself improve intelligence. I do agree, however, that more fine-grained (and more difficult to measure) metrics than “number of years of education” would help sharpen the argument.