Media outputs
The BBC-2 programme, Who Gets the Best Jobs?, was broadcast on February 2nd 2011. It contained a heavily edited extract of a 90 minute interview in which I discussed the link between social class and intelligence. In the clip, I suggest that ability is the principal factor driving occupational success, and that on average, people in higher occupational classes are brighter than people in lower class positions. The interviewer, Richard Bilton, is then shown looking appalled and incredulous. Left on the cutting room floor was my explanation of the logic and the evidence on which I based my claim. None of the evidence was ever mentioned in the programme. Click here to find out why I think brain surgeons may be more intelligent than road sweepers, or here to read some of the feedback from viewers.