 Quote by John Creighto
Now as for trying to be scientific about it, what statistics do you think best measure social mobility.
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I don't know the right answer; just that an uncorrected income or wealth percentile is not it.
Quote by LaurieAG
The attached international statistics are from a NYT article.
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Interestingly, they use dollars spent as a proxy for educational quality. Since we have statistics for educational outcomes, wouldn't that have made more sense? (Not that the US does particularly well there either, but at least that directly measures what they want to know)