Harvard SAT and IQ: How much regression towards the mean?

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…

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How exactly does one properly remove the effect of one variable? Residuals, partial correlation, multiple regression, semi-partial?

I ran into trouble trying to remove the effects of one variable on other variables doing the writing my reanalysis of the Noble et al 2015 paper. It was not…

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The general brain factor, working memory, parental income and education, and racial admixture

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…

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The S factor in the British Isles: A reanalysis of Lynn (1979)

Read the study PDF. Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, Ulster Institute for Social Research. Email: emil@emilkirkegaard.dk Abstract I reanalyze data reported by Richard Lynn in a 1979 paper concerning IQ and socioeconomic…

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Spearman’s hypothesis on item-level data from Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices: A replication and extension

Emil O. W. Kirkegaard1 Abstract Item-level data from Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices was compiled for 12 diverse groups from previously published studies. Jensen’s method (method of correlated vectors) was used…

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International differences in intelligence can be confusing: A commentary on Harrison et al (2015)

Abstract In this commentary I explain how mean differences between normal distributions give rise to different percentages of the populations being above or below a given threshold, depending on where…

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