georgehemingto1

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   by georgehemingto1 7y ago

   I mean jesus, of course family background is not independent of IQ, but assessments of family background can obviously be informative in understanding how we get from there to here. To say that, quote, "One's intelligence is n
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   by georgehemingto1 7y ago

   This is a total nothingburger, a long paragraph attacking a strawman of an argument you haven't even solicited the details of
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   by georgehemingto1 7y ago

   also, to clarify things a bit: in my first comment i got a bit mixed up (fuck yeah lifelong learning disability) trying to make my point about lifelong attainment and the IQ analogy and made it sound like the paper in question was about IQ,
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   by georgehemingto1 7y ago

   honestly it's disappointing when i see people with training in stats make these comments: I'm a fucking poet if I'm anything at all and yet I find myself drawn into these ridiculous discussions about stats (in which I have no
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   by georgehemingto1 7y ago

   it's a triviality to say that you can control for educational attainment (and opportunities for education as well as class) when accounting for differences in IQ: it's hard to do in practice because social science is complicated