{"id":4448,"date":"2014-10-30T22:14:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2014-10-30T22:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:14:34","slug":"new-paper-out-the-personal-jensen-coefficient-does-not-predict-grades-beyond-its-association-with-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2014\/10\/new-paper-out-the-personal-jensen-coefficient-does-not-predict-grades-beyond-its-association-with-g\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper out: The personal Jensen coefficient does not predict grades beyond its association with g"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found null results for a proposed metric (actually two). In the spirit of publishing failed ideas, I wrote this up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>General intelligence (g) is known to predict grades at all educational levels. A Jensen coefficient is the correlation of subtests&#8217; g-loadings with a vector of interest. I hypothesized that the personal Jensen coefficient from the subjects&#8217; subtest scores might predict grade point average beyond g. I used an open dataset to test this. The results showed that it does not seem to have predictive power beyond g (partial correlation = -.02). I found the same result when using a similar metric suggested by Davide Piffer.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/openpsych.net\/ODP\/2014\/10\/the-personal-jensen-coefficient-does-not-predict-grades-beyond-its-association-with-g\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found null results for a proposed metric (actually two). In the spirit of publishing failed ideas, I wrote this up. Abstract General intelligence (g) is known to predict grades at all educational levels. A Jensen coefficient is the correlation of subtests&#8217; g-loadings with a vector of interest. I hypothesized that the personal Jensen coefficient from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1839,2591],"tags":[2032,2033,2034,2013,2035,2036],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychometics","category-intelligence-iq-cognitive-ability","tag-educational-achievement","tag-g-loading","tag-grade-point-average","tag-jensen-coefficient","tag-jensen-effect","tag-method-of-correlated-vectors","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","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=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}