Testing The Race of Mother Hypothesis: A Technical Review
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My paper has been finally published. The review thread can be accessed here. I already discussed the technical issues in the paper but in this post I am going to extend a bit more. Still, you may want to read my post on Human Varieties first. Starting with the CPP, the paper reported the racial groups' scores without disaggregating by marital status, unlike what Willerman et al. (1974) did. First, the sample was small. Second, "controlling" for marital status may further partial out genetically-induced traits. Controlling for SES was already a doubtful procedure to begin with. Yet, reporting cognitive scores before and after controlling for SES allows us to evaluate its effect across racial groups. For example, if parenting was strongly correlated with SES, but SES has no impact on group differences, it may suggest that parenting isn't as important as environmentalists claimed.
Testing The Race of Mother Hypothesis: A Technical Review
Testing The Race of Mother Hypothesis: A…
Testing The Race of Mother Hypothesis: A Technical Review
My paper has been finally published. The review thread can be accessed here. I already discussed the technical issues in the paper but in this post I am going to extend a bit more. Still, you may want to read my post on Human Varieties first. Starting with the CPP, the paper reported the racial groups' scores without disaggregating by marital status, unlike what Willerman et al. (1974) did. First, the sample was small. Second, "controlling" for marital status may further partial out genetically-induced traits. Controlling for SES was already a doubtful procedure to begin with. Yet, reporting cognitive scores before and after controlling for SES allows us to evaluate its effect across racial groups. For example, if parenting was strongly correlated with SES, but SES has no impact on group differences, it may suggest that parenting isn't as important as environmentalists claimed.