Migrant selection and informative priors
Chris Rufo wasn't happy with the recent American experience with the Somalians scamming the welfare state and wrote about how one should take into account "which national populations" people wish…
Selective migration and regression towards the mean
There is much discussion in these days about immigration to the West, and in particular, skilled migration to the United States. Critics of migration often point to regression towards the…
The practical utility of selection for hiring
Over at SlateStarCodex AstralCodexTen commenter Himaldr asked me: >"because strength of the correlation has a linear relationship with the expected return of using it for selection (hiring) purposes."< Can you…
Why do persons from higher mean IQ populations do better even after selection?
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…