This tweet was in response to this graph posted by i/o: Pretty easy study to do, so I figure I’ll do it here. The NLSY97 has measurements of parent education, wealth, and income, as well as measures of child IQ (approximated with ASVAB g score, derived from 12 tests, controlled for age).
It is strange, because I never even heard the myth, and the claim seems to be too statistically-involved to exist as a myth. He may have got the idea in his head after his own brief glance at the data, because in general relationships with wealth are weaker than relationships with income. If you have strong confidence in your conclusions, then you will have strong confidence in your arguments regardless.
Maybe he's not very secure, and pretty ladies have rewarded him for such behavior in the past? That's my go-to explanation for performative ignorance on the part of Woke males.
I expect Nicholas J. Kurian sincerely believed what he claimed. How do you think he came to express it so confidently?
Beats me.
It is strange, because I never even heard the myth, and the claim seems to be too statistically-involved to exist as a myth. He may have got the idea in his head after his own brief glance at the data, because in general relationships with wealth are weaker than relationships with income. If you have strong confidence in your conclusions, then you will have strong confidence in your arguments regardless.
Maybe he's not very secure, and pretty ladies have rewarded him for such behavior in the past? That's my go-to explanation for performative ignorance on the part of Woke males.