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>Providing a hearing aid to someone hard of hearing so they can learn is equity. Their outcomes aren't guaranteed

from your cited wikipedia page: "Equity is equality of outcome" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_equity#Equity

giving somebody a hearing aid is basic decency, but will it erase all deficits, guaranteed? no.

IQ is a different page of the book, it basically says that a kid with a high IQ who needs a hearing aid is likely to do better on the SAT than a kid with a lower IQ and perfect hearing. Sadly there is no "IQ aid". But just as families with a Down Syndrome child love that child every bit as much, IQ is not a measure of worth as a human, but simply "this kid can run the cognitive 40m dash faster"

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