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Given the data found on this chart http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20150718_STC096.png http://
by stymaar 11y ago
Given the data found on this chart http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20150718_STC096.png http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac... (which shows more than a hundred of points, quite good compared to the size of the sample : “almost 300 black American teenagers”), I'm really sceptical about the relevance of the results …
- shas3 11y agoI think it's The Economist's visualization that is confusing, not the data. I read the paper, they have 292 subjects. Here's the Tukey plot (which to me, is less confusing than the scatter plot) from the paper on age in low and high self-control groups: http://imgur.com/ijL6nrp http://imgur.com/ijL6nrp Also, according to the authors, 'skin-deep' metrics improved: http://imgur.com/lXD3f2L http://imgur.com/lXD3f2L