{"id":4271,"date":"2014-09-08T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2014-10-09T18:13:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:13:28","slug":"new-paper-out-the-international-general-socioeconomic-factor-factor-analyzing-international-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2014\/09\/new-paper-out-the-international-general-socioeconomic-factor-factor-analyzing-international-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper out: The international general socioeconomic factor: Factor analyzing international rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/openpsych.net\/ODP\/2014\/09\/the-international-general-socioeconomic-factor-factor-analyzing-international-rankings\/<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nMany studies have examined the correlations between national IQs and various country-level indexes of well-being. The analyses have been unsystematic and not gathered in one single analysis or dataset. In this paper I gather a large sample of country-level indexes and show that there is a strong general socioeconomic factor (S factor) which is highly correlated (.86-.87) with national cognitive ability using either Lynn and Vanhanen&#8217;s dataset or Altinok&#8217;s. Furthermore, the method of correlated vectors shows that the correlations between variable loadings on the S factor and cognitive measurements are .99 in both datasets using both cognitive measurements, indicating that it is the S factor that drives the relationship with national cognitive measurements, not the remaining variance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one took a while to do. Had to learn a lot of programming (R), do lots of analyses, 50 days in peer review. Perhaps my most important paper so far.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/openpsych.net\/ODP\/2014\/09\/the-international-general-socioeconomic-factor-factor-analyzing-international-rankings\/ Abstract Many studies have examined the correlations between national IQs and various country-level indexes of well-being. The analyses have been unsystematic and not gathered in one single analysis or dataset. In this paper I gather a large sample of country-level indexes and show that there is a strong general socioeconomic factor (S factor) which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1946,1653,1921],"tags":[1978,2592],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-science","category-psychology","category-sociology","tag-international","tag-s-general-socioeconomic-factor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}