{"id":7927,"date":"2019-06-20T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2019-06-20T17:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:35:30","slug":"article-out-first-names-cognitive-ability-and-social-status-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2019\/06\/article-out-first-names-cognitive-ability-and-social-status-in-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Article out: First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/333904065_First_Names_Cognitive_Ability_and_Social_Status_in_Denmark\">First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark<\/a>. <i>Mankind Quarterly<\/i>, <i>59<\/i>(4). Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/mankindquarterly.org\/archive\/issue\/59-4\/5\">http:\/\/mankindquarterly.org\/archive\/issue\/59-4\/5<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>It is well established that general intelligence varies in the population and is causal for variation in later life outcomes, in particular for social status and education. We linked IQ-test scores from the Danish draft test (B\u00f8rge Prien Pr\u00f8ven, BPP) to social status for a list of 265 relatively common names in Denmark (85% male). Intelligence at the level of first name was strongly related to social status, r = .64. Ten names in the dataset were non-western, Muslim names. These names averaged an IQ of 81 (range 76-87) compared with 98 for the western, mostly Danish ones. Nonwestern names were also lower in social status, with a mean SES score of 2.66 standard deviations below that of western names. Mediation analysis showed that 30% of this very large gap can be explained by the IQ gap. Reasons for this relatively low level of mediation are discussed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Main result:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA_S_wtd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7928\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/CA_S_wtd-1024x666.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This study is part of the on-going series of studies into Scandinavian immigrant data, especially using Danish army test results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2019). First Names, Cognitive Ability and Social Status in Denmark. Mankind Quarterly, 59(4). Retrieved from http:\/\/mankindquarterly.org\/archive\/issue\/59-4\/5 It is well established that general intelligence varies in the population and is causal for variation in later life outcomes, in particular for social status and education. We linked IQ-test scores from the Danish draft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2468,2591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-intelligence-iq-cognitive-ability","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927","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=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7929,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}