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What happens to the transition probabilities when you control for IQ? The only place in that paper where you find those two letters next to each other is in th
by peterfirefly 12y ago
What happens to the transition probabilities when you control for IQ?
The only place in that paper where you find those two letters next to each other is in the word "technique(s)".
Given what we know about the importance of IQ (and its distribution), I'd say it's a pretty bad paper. And citing it makes for a pretty bad argument.
- lucid00 12y agoYou my friend have no idea what a bad argument is. So control for IQ. Lets say we did. Sadly the statistics already say that a poor white person is more likely to "climb up from poverty" than a poor black person. See the problem with your argument is that you somehow think that IQ is a factor here. Lets say there are 10 job openings, and 3 of those jobs are run by people who are secretly prejudiced against black people and will come up with some excuse to not hire them. That means for a white person there are 10 job openings and for a black person there are only 7, regardless of IQ. So a white person and a black person with equal IQ do not have an equal situation in a country where the supremacy is white (even outside of racism and the like, there is always cultural bias which applies here).
- thelamest 12y agoThe study controlled for cognitive abilities, it's graphed on figure 8c. "Consistent with previous studies linking AFQT scores to racial differences in adult outcomes (for example, Neal and Johnson, 1996; Cameron and Heckman, 2001), I do not interpret these scores as measuring innate endowments but rather as reflecting the accumulated differences in family background and other influences that are manifested in test scores." Please don't fall for naive evolutionary justifications for discrimination and don't criticize blindly.