<p>College alum says “The problem with associated wealth with SAT scores is that there are a number of confounding variables”</p>
<p>No. That’s why we do studies. Studies help factor out the confounding variables. The results from studies are significant because they demonstrate that SAT scores are highly related to wealth after confounding variables are considered. </p>
<p>Coureur says “Correlations describe trends in populations, not the potential of any given individual within the population…In other words, the correlation between wealth and SAT scores suggests (but does not prove) that providing more money to poor people will raise the overall or average SAT scores for that group, but it tells you nothing about what will happen to any given individual within that population”</p>
<p>This answer presumes a different argument is being made by the author of the article. The authors of the article does not pose the solution “provide more money to poor kids”. Rather, s/he simply describes the world - that there is a bias towards the wealthy. A lack of causation between wealth and SAT scores, does not refute that the large preponderance of high SAT scores among the wealthy creates a system biased towards them.</p>