tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post5746149688829072050..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: IQ, Neuroticism, booze, and those damn vegetables againAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-59810535334077210732014-04-18T09:21:37.285+01:002014-04-18T09:21:37.285+01:00See also:See also:ukashhttp://ucuzukash.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-66842089625958320592014-04-15T09:22:56.588+01:002014-04-15T09:22:56.588+01:00An aide to de Gaulle said to him during an electio...An aide to de Gaulle said to him during an election campaign "Mon General, all fools should be eliminated". De Gaulle replied wearily: "A vast program".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-91712593887311286532014-04-15T01:18:16.981+01:002014-04-15T01:18:16.981+01:00it's a prejudice of the lower classes in the u...it's a prejudice of the lower classes in the us that good people drink little or not at all.<br /><br />nh consumes more per person than any us state.<br /><br />in class terms nh is the king of the states.<br /><br />i read a study recently which found a significant difference in brain volume between heavy drinkers and teetotalers.<br /><br />i also remember a psy d who didn't know the difference between statistically and practically significant. he recorded in his notes that i was talking nonsense...and that i was above average to high average in iq and that future psy ds should know this as most of their clients were very dull.<br /><br />well that same study found that the difference in brain volume between heavy drinkers and non-drinkers was a whopping...1.5%. ;) (that's the diff between statistical and practical significance, if you didn't get it.)<br /><br />and i'm in the bgi study. i even told this psy d i'd made a perfect score on the gre general. he made no connection between such tests and iq tests.<br /><br />psychologists are so f---ing stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-5306121392369396932014-04-12T20:13:24.582+01:002014-04-12T20:13:24.582+01:00Income .57
not even close. you can run regression...Income .57<br /><br />not even close. you can run regressions to your heart's content on the gss. http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss12<br /><br />and the nyls found a much smaller correlation. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/blogger2wp/Methods-Zagorsky00-RelationshipbetweenIQandIncome.png<br /><br />in america the stupid are usually poor, but the returns to iq diminish qucikly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-62559621208659100502014-04-12T20:11:35.053+01:002014-04-12T20:11:35.053+01:00Income .57
not even close. you can run regression...Income .57<br /><br />not even close. you can run regressions to your heart's content on the gss. http://sda.berkeley.edu/sdaweb/analysis/?dataset=gss12<br /><br />and the nyls found a much smaller correlation. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/blogger2wp/Methods-Zagorsky00-RelationshipbetweenIQandIncome.png<br /><br />in america the stupid are usually poor, but the returns to iq diminish qucikly.<br /><br />in america the effect of iq on icnome is mediated entirly by educational attainment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-30312687514122504832014-04-12T19:14:10.757+01:002014-04-12T19:14:10.757+01:00SS: Frequent lurker of your website. You should co...SS: Frequent lurker of your website. You should comment on the relationship between State IQ, well-being and presidential election results:<br /><br />https://campusdrive.csuohio.edu/Users/1001180/iq_obama_final.pdf?uniq=227991<br /><br />JT: Mississippi ranks 50th in well-being; 1st in fundamentalist religiosity; 13th in crime; and last in health, income and IQ.<br /><br />http://www.people.vcu.edu/~mamcdani/Publications/Pesta,%20McDaniel%20&%20Bertsch%20%282010%29.pdf<br /><br /><br />Bryan Pestahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08489662466643928790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-25237999907868588722014-04-12T09:50:51.453+01:002014-04-12T09:50:51.453+01:00Dear Steve, Thanks for the update on West Virginia...Dear Steve, Thanks for the update on West Virginia. From memory, Mississippi has poorer health outcomes and lower ability scores. Aggregated data certainly gives an interesting overview, though a representative and well followed birth cohort is probably the best of all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-67507345767117666262014-04-12T06:33:06.276+01:002014-04-12T06:33:06.276+01:00Coal mining in West Virginia was a huge business b...Coal mining in West Virginia was a huge business but now it requires few workers, so the people left behind tend to be the left behind-types. By the way, the nearby metropolis of Pittsburgh, the old steel capital, has economically stabilized on the back of its hospitals and medical centers, presumably treating in part the high level of chronic disease in West Virginia.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-21839876867134435492014-04-11T01:27:02.036+01:002014-04-11T01:27:02.036+01:00Ops, the sign for health behaviors should be negat...Ops, the sign for health behaviors should be negative. Bryan Pestahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08489662466643928790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-44630122483521243832014-04-11T01:22:19.380+01:002014-04-11T01:22:19.380+01:00Thanks for featuring this!
This may sound weird, ...Thanks for featuring this!<br /><br />This may sound weird, but I think researchers often over-control for things when using regression. I call it regression soup: Whichever variable is “still significant” must be the cause / whichever variable is no longer significant (after control) cannot be the cause. <br /><br />For example, it’s common to see IQ predicting something while controlling for education. This bothers me unless the authors at least also report the steps where IQ and education appear alone in the equations. Even still, given that IQ and education probably partly determine each other, how do we interpret any of this?<br /><br />With regard to causality at the state-level, we envision a nexus of inter-correlated and co-causal variables (inspired by Jensen’s g Nexus). If true, regression or any of its variants does not seem powerful enough to get at causality. <br /><br />I re-ran the original regression reported above and controlled for race. The multiple R predicting chronic disease was .90. Here are the Betas:<br /><br />IQ -.18<br />N .31<br />Health Behaviors .56<br />% black .11 (ns)<br />Bryan Pestahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08489662466643928790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-29362032583406616872014-04-10T18:03:32.572+01:002014-04-10T18:03:32.572+01:00Oh to be sure, IQ is predictive of health between ...Oh to be sure, IQ is predictive of health between groups. But a few key outliers jump out (Hispanics, at least in the US, SW Europeans, NE Europeans - although globally they're not such huge outliers) that complicate any attempt to try to craft a neat and simple explanation as to why the relationship exists. Those outliers also, fortunately, serve to call into question the importance of behaviors to outcomes... ;)<br /><br /><br />JayManhttp://jaymans.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-47106081310399106922014-04-10T17:27:40.952+01:002014-04-10T17:27:40.952+01:00Albion's Seed. Pattern of original migration. ...Albion's Seed. Pattern of original migration. Disaggregate by race and nation of origin. Agree to all that, but in fact none of that matters, because whatever the reason for having a particular IQ the interest is that it leads to particular behaviours and health outcomes. Indeed, if it turns out that they have different racial and cultural origins, that strengthens the argument that IQ is important.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.com