"the correlation between SAT scores and family income is vastly overstated by liberals"
I think that has the same methodological problem as studies that says income is only weakly correlated with IQ. If you ask, "Does this mean there are just as many people making over $100k with an IQ below 100 as above?" Well...no. Does IQ's relationship with income start to decline above 135? Yes. A highly ranked school is certain to have the smart children of CFOs and accounting firm partners making $750k and the children of professors, journalists, book editors, etc. making less than 100k. See SAT scores aren't correlated with SES! Well...it may be more complicated than that.
If we can get the raw data, and if the correlation was based on dollar income using linear regression, then we should compute it based on log(income), or perhaps on percentiles, in the sense of "what is the average percentile SAT score of the child of a family in the 74th percentile of SES?"
Yes, those are two big ifs. No, I am not a statistician.
"the correlation between SAT scores and family income is vastly overstated by liberals"
I think that has the same methodological problem as studies that says income is only weakly correlated with IQ. If you ask, "Does this mean there are just as many people making over $100k with an IQ below 100 as above?" Well...no. Does IQ's relationship with income start to decline above 135? Yes. A highly ranked school is certain to have the smart children of CFOs and accounting firm partners making $750k and the children of professors, journalists, book editors, etc. making less than 100k. See SAT scores aren't correlated with SES! Well...it may be more complicated than that.
If we can get the raw data, and if the correlation was based on dollar income using linear regression, then we should compute it based on log(income), or perhaps on percentiles, in the sense of "what is the average percentile SAT score of the child of a family in the 74th percentile of SES?"
Yes, those are two big ifs. No, I am not a statistician.
This is all lovely content but in all sincerity, please do prioritize hugging your dog.
What a great roundup. Please feel free to include any food/recipe/kitchen tidbits that may have struck your fancy, as well. Thanks!
Family has to come first and dogs are family, of course.
Ah, a Jerome K. Jerome fan! (or Connie Willis)
Embrace the healing power of "and" ... :)