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And how did they perform well? Excellent and expensive schools and tutors their entire child life.
There are loads of kids from lower income backgrounds with top academic performance. There are also loads of kids from wealthy backgrounds with terrible academic performance (I worked with some of them while interning at a private school).
You’re definitely right when it comes to demographic averages but you can’t make a definitive determination on an individual basis without knowing someone’s background.