Migrant performance on PISA worldwide
There are some data memes floating around like this one: In German, it shows the performance of Turks on PISA math by year and destination country. It can be seen…
What explains the Big Pisa Decline of 2022? It’s not COVID
You may have seen posts like this: Two explanations are commonly offered: Phones/computers got suddenly more addictive than before (Tiktok-era) COVID was bad for learning. Let's start with the second.…
New study out: Intelligence Inequality and Income Inequality: The Missing Link
We published a new paper a few days ago: Wright, S., & Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2023). Intelligence Inequality and Income Inequality: The Missing Link. Comparative Sociology, 22(2), 298–319. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-bja10077…
Intelligence and PISA/TIMSS etc. at the individual level
There's a large number of papers about the relationship between national intelligence and national scholastic scores, and to which degree the latter indexes the former. Some typical papers: Rindermann, H.…
Does conscientiousness predict PISA scores at the national level? A cautious meta-analysis
Just a quick write-up before I write up a paper with this for ODP. Introduction Altho general cognitive ability (g) has received the most attention by differential psychologists, personality receives…