{"id":67366,"date":"2012-04-13T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T03:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16279"},"modified":"2012-04-13T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T03:43:47","slug":"verbal-intelligence-by-demographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/13\/verbal-intelligence-by-demographic\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbal intelligence by demographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I put up a post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/wordsum-iq\/\">WORDSUM &amp; IQ &amp; the correlation<\/a>, as a &#8220;reference&#8221; post. Basically if anyone objected to using WORDSUM, a variable in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/07\/using-the-general-social-survey\/\">General Social Survey<\/a>, then I would point to that post and observe that <strong>the correlation between WORDSUM and general intelligence is 0.71.<\/strong> That makes sense, since WORDSUM is a vocabulary test, and verbal fluency is well correlated with intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>But I realized over the years I&#8217;ve posted many posts using the GSS and WORDSUM, but never explicitly laid out the distribution of WORDSUM scores, which range from 0 (0 out of 10) to 10 (10 out of 10). I&#8217;ve used categories like &#8220;stupid, interval 0-4,&#8221; but often only mentioned the percentiles in the comments after prompting from a reader. <strong>This post is to fix that problem forever, and will serve as a reference for the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First, please keep in mind that I limited the sample to the year 2000 and later. The N is ~7,000, but far lower for some of variables crossed. Therefore, <strong>I invite you to replicate my results.<\/strong> After the charts I will list all the variables, so if you care you should be able to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I put up a post, WORDSUM &amp; IQ &amp; the correlation, as a &#8220;reference&#8221; post. Basically if anyone objected to using WORDSUM, a variable in the General Social Survey, then I would point to that post and observe that the cor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,55,56,827,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-analysis","category-demographics","category-gss","category-intelligence","category-wordsum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67366"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67563,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67366\/revisions\/67563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}