Some time ago, I stumbled upon this paper: Searls, D. T., Mead, N. A., & Ward, B. (1985). The relationship of students' reading skills to TV watching, leisure time reading,…
Abstract A dataset was compiled with 17 diverse socioeconomic variables for 32 departments of Colombia and the capital district. Factor analysis revealed an S factor. Results were robust to data…
Abstract A factor analysis was carried out on 6 socioeconomic variables for 506 census tracts of Boston. An S factor was found with positive loadings for median value of owner-occupied…
Abstract It has been found that workers who hail from higher socioeconomic classes have higher earnings even in the same profession. An environmental cause was offered as an explanation of…
Posted here as a sneak peak for those not coming, and for easy access for myself.
Abstract Sizeable S factors were found across 3 different datasets (from years 1991, 2000 and 2010), which explained 56 to 71% of the variance. Correlations of extracted S factors with…
Paper PDF Abstract Two datasets of socioeconomic data was obtained from different sources. Both were factor analyzed and revealed a general factor (S factor). These factors were highly correlated with each other (.79…
http://pumpkinperson.com/2015/04/13/is-the-sat-an-iq-test/ Blog commenter Lion of the Judah-sphere has claimed that the SAT does not correlate as well with comprehensive IQ tests as said IQ tests correlate with one another. At…
UNFINISHED ANALYSIS. POSTED HERE TO ESTABLISH PRIORITY. MORE TO FOLLOW! Updated 2015-12-04 Remains to be done: Admixture analysis (doing) Proofreading and editing Deciding how to control for age and scanner…
Introduction This is a post in the on-going series of comments on studies of international/transracial adoption. A global genetic/hereditarian model of cognitive differences and their socioeconomic effects implies that adoptees…