Against the economists on school spending
Some days ago I posted a chart about school spending (per-pupil spending) and math test scores: Note how I didn't say this cross-sectional scatterplot proves anything about causality, but we…
Educated birds of a feather
Parent-child similarity is a much studied topic. So much studied that various fields have come up with many different terms for the same thing: intergenerational elasticity, intergenerational persistence, intergenerational mobility…
New study out: Income and Education Disparities Track Genetic Ancestry
We just published a new study in OpenPsych: Hu, M., Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Fuerst, J. (2023). Income and Education Disparities Track Genetic Ancestry. OpenPsych, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26775/OP.2023.09.11 Structural racism…
Misleading plots on secular trends and education
This mistake is very common, and here we look at an arbitrary example I was sent promoted by Rob Henderson on Twitter. This error is quite common (first example I…
Systematic approaches to learning work better than haphazard ones, probably
May be another case of a zombie idea: one that keeps being refuted only to come back under another term, and then await refutation for 10-20 years. It is also…
What is a good name? The S factor in Denmark at the name-level
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Bo Tranberg Abstract We present and analyze data from a dataset of 2358 Danish first names and socioeconomic outcomes not previously made available to the public…
Attitude towards nuclear energy and correlates: educational attainment, gender, age, self-rated knowledge, experience, etc.
Nuclear energy often gets bad press. However, journalists are mostly very leftist, scientifically ill-educated women, so perhaps they are not quite the right demographic to tell us about this issue.…
Causal effect of education on IQ scores using the discordant twin design?
Recently, the twin-control design has been used to test causal models (e.g. exercise→happiness, exercise→¬depression/anxiety symptoms, casual sex→depression/suicidal thoughts). The theory is simple. Suppose we do a standard cross-sectional design study…
Jensen’s 1972 Genetics and Education
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3823494-genetics-and-education http://libgen.org/book/index.php?md5=20841a83273ee2de5c1d6a663521a1fa I acquired this book. Apparently little known, as are many of Jensen's older works. It has some good stuff, especially the Preface and the chapter about Ethical issues.…
IQ (verbal and math) per university disiplin
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/classicists-are-smart Not surpriesed to see fysisists as the smartest. Sumwot surpriesed to see filosofy students do soe wel. Espeshaly skoring hier verbal skors than linguists. Not surpriesed to see edukaeshon…