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“The logic is straightforward: A college degree supplies a credential & sometimes specific job skills that, combined with the college graduate's greater average level of intelligence should reduce the independent role of IQ in ways that would not apply as strongly to high school graduates.”

Quote by Richard J. Herrnstein

Book:The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

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