{"id":7835,"date":"2019-04-16T06:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T05:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2019-05-24T21:40:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T20:40:56","slug":"the-attitude-achievement-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2019\/04\/the-attitude-achievement-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;attitude-achievement paradox&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Speaking of philosophy of science, one of the things about new paradigms is that they are supposed to solve anomalies of older paradigms. A while ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/openpsych.net\/paper\/27\">Dalliard (2014)<\/a> mentioned (in a footnote!) one of these, namely the attitude-achievement paradox. There&#8217;s quite a number of studies on it:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2019-04-16-06-51-50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7894 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2019-04-16-06-51-50-1024x782.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"782\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The brief version is that black, Hispanic etc. underachievement relative to white levels is thought to be caused by low expectations (&#8216;negative stereotypes&#8217;) leading to low aspirations. However, when the supposed mediator is measured, it turns out that blacks actually have <i>higher<\/i> educational aspirations than whites, and thus the proposed mediator completely fails, being in the wrong direction. Blacks apparently, as a group, suffer from over-confidence, which is another confirmed stereotype.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I don&#8217;t think the previous literature has pointed out how the addition of group average differences to the model makes this anomaly go away. It&#8217;s another pointless epicycle in the blank slate model.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of philosophy of science, one of the things about new paradigms is that they are supposed to solve anomalies of older paradigms. A while ago, Dalliard (2014) mentioned (in a footnote!) one of these, namely the attitude-achievement paradox. There&#8217;s quite a number of studies on it: The brief version is that black, Hispanic etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1937,2591],"tags":[2735],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-science","category-intelligence-iq-cognitive-ability","tag-attitude-achievement-paradox","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","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=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7896,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}