Greg Clark
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Greg Clark is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 18, 2024 and July 03, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Good overview of Greg Clark style persistence literature”; “study … was by Greg Clark, who argues that very long-run persistence of social status is driven by genetics”. It most often appears alongside 23andme, @alextisyoung, @april.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: January 18, 2024
- Last seen: July 03, 2025
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
30: Cremieux: How Do Elite Groups Form? Good overview of Greg Clark style persistence literature and survey of highly-successful groups, from Parsis to Copts to Jews. Interesting new theory of Jewish achievement based on 1st century BC decree that all Jews have to be literate.
Inline links: How Do Elite Groups Form?
Note that, although that the story you linked doesn't mention it, the study that found people with Norman names overrepresented at Oxford was by Greg Clark, who argues that very long-run persistence of social status is driven by genetics and highly assortative mating (0.8 on a latent measure of socioeconomic competence). So in this case it wouldn't be necessarily be confounding, because persistent differences between people with Norman and Saxon names might well be genetic.