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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by sdenton4 on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:12PM (#42980318)
And parental education, race, and household income are also all correlated with one another... And the paper you cited makes the point that the correlation between socioeconomic background and test scores has increased substantially since 1995. This is not the gotcha that you think it is.
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Re:Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between appl... by thaumasiotes on Saturday February 08, 2025 @01:26AM (#42980882)
> And parental education, race, and household income are also all correlated with one another...

That's true.

> This is not the gotcha that you think it is.

But your point makes the guy I'm responding to look much worse. After controlling for parental education, the effect of parental income is radically diminished. Most of that 0.36 correlation is just confounding. Parental education isn't even a great indicator itself; it's a proxy for intelligence. It's just a much better proxy than parental income is.

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