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It'd be much more interesting if they tried to tackle which specific factors made the most difference. (Based on my own anecdotal experience, rich people are not especially smarter than the poor or middle-class)

Perhaps a better question is which school did you attend? Or, did you take a prep course?

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(Based on my own anecdotal experience, rich people are not especially smarter than the poor or middle-class)

IQ correlates better that parental socio-economic standing. But there are lots of factors that make this appear false -- the people you spend time with might be mostly of a certain class, or in a particular IQ stratum.

Based on my experience that's half true: rich kids aren't noticeably smarter than middle-class kids, but middle-class kids are noticeably smarter than the truly poor kids.

This is about what we'd expect, assuming a society which is reasonably meritocratic and intelligence which is at least partly inheiritable.

It's easy to explain that phenomenon without calling upon meritocracy or inherited traits: people with more resources (human and material) have more opportunity to become smarter.

Or maybe poor people value something other than intelligence. This argument works for both heritable and learned attributes.

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