smudger wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:25 pm
Why she assumes degrees correlate with intelligence is beyond me.
No comment.
But others might be able to read and comprehend this, for example -
On page 63 of Charles Murray’s book Coming Apart, he displays data on the mean IQ’s of people with various education levels, as of age 25. Although the data is only for white Americans, the white IQ distribution is fairly similar to that of Americans as a whole. He shows data for both 1982-1989 and 2005-2009. Since the data is virtually identical for both eras, I’ll describe the more recent stats:
White Americans with no degree (about 10 years of completed education?): Average IQ 87
White Americans with high school diploma/GED (about 12 years education?): Average IQ 99
White Americans with an Associate degree (about 14 years education?): Average IQ 104
White Americans with a Bachelor’s degree (about 16 years education?): Average IQ 113
White Americans with a Master’s degree (about 18 years education?): Average IQ 117
White Americans with PhD, LLD, MD, DDS (about 20 years education?): Average IQ 124
The relationship between IQ and years of education seems pretty linear.
[and so on]
https://brainsize.wordpress.com/2014/06 ... education/
This article below is more philosophical, but also interesting, raising some important questions, such as -
Intelligence and education: clearly correlated, but what is the direction of causation?
Intelligence and education have been studied together since the earliest empirical research on these topics. Spearman2 found teachers’ estimates of intelligence to be correlated with school exam results. Binet3 developed what we now know as intelligence quotient (IQ) tests to identify those children who would not benefit from normal education. When intelligence and educational outcomes—often assessed as years of full-time education or as highest achieved qualification, and also by school grades or educational achievement test scores—are measured at about the same time, a typical correlation is ∼0.5.4 Like any other correlation, a cross-sectional correlation between intelligence and education demands an open mind with regard to causal interpretation. Perhaps more intelligent people gain access to more and higher-level education. Perhaps exposure to more education causes higher intelligence test scores. The problem is one that is basic to epidemiology: what is person and what is situation, what is genetic and what is environmental and what is cause and what is effect? Influences may flow in both directions, and longitudinal studies can help to quantify their relative magnitudes....
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[and much further on in this long article]
Finally, we should not be blinkered by considering only intelligence and education. It should be kept in mind that there might be other variables that contribute to the association between intelligence and education. ...
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39 ... erceptions
Another study in Science Direct
Increased educational level is related with higher IQ scores but lower g-variance: Evidence from the standardization of the WAIS-R for Italy
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 9615000355
And this from a study in Norway -
Study: More Education Increases IQ Score
[how large was the sample - ]
So, she and her colleagues were able to sift through data on 107,000 draft-age young men, correlating their years of education with their IQ scores obtained by the military.
https://www.voanews.com/a/study-more-ed ... 69492.html
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Please note.
I am not saying that people with a lower level of education are stupid.
I am not saying that all people with a higher degree are intelligent.
I know many people who left school - even at 13 - who are incredibly intelligent.
And I know some people with several degrees who I would regard as thick as two short planks.
However, overall, the evidence shows a correlation.
I should also add - the fact that young people tended to vote more in favour of Remain, and older people for Brexit - it should not make people angry. It is simply a statistic. And the same with educational level and the Brexit result.
The more interesting question is why this occured. And what implications this might have for the future.
