Everything's Fine

by Cecilia Rabess

“But the problem is that success—money, power, opportunity—follows a power law distribution. So, there’s an asymmetry. Systematic distortions—institutional sexism, racism, discrimination—that exaggerate the skewness. There’s data to prove it. Researchers have done simulations that show the relationship between IQ and success is disproportionate and highly nonlinear. So, if you think we’re lowering the bar… your math is wrong.”