{"id":71596,"date":"2012-06-24T19:54:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T03:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17026"},"modified":"2012-06-24T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T03:54:26","slug":"higher-vocabulary-higher-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/24\/higher-vocabulary-higher-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher vocabulary ~ higher income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2012\/06\/calcification-of-the-merit-castes\/comment-page-1\/#comment-139574\">comment below<\/a> I was curious as to the correlation between intelligence and income. To indicate intelligence I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss10\">GSS&#8217;s<\/a> WORDSUM variable, which has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/wordsum-iq\/\">~0.70 correlation with IQ<\/a>. For income, I used REALINC, which is indexed to 1986 values (so it is inflation adjusted) and aggregates the household income. Finally, I limited my sample to non-Hispanic whites over the age of 30 (for what it&#8217;s worth, this choice also limited the data set to respondents from the year 2000 and later).<\/p>\n<p>The results don&#8217;t get at the commenter&#8217;s assertions, because 10 out of 10 on WORDSUM does not imply that you&#8217;re <em>that smart<\/em> really. But the trendline is suggestive. Note that aggregated 0-4 because the sample size at the lower values is small indeed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/webpreview_htm_3c17b2ac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17027\" title=\"webpreview_htm_3c17b2ac\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/06\/webpreview_htm_3c17b2ac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by a comment below I was curious as to the correlation between intelligence and income. To indicate intelligence I used the GSS&#8217;s WORDSUM variable, which has a ~0.70 correlation with IQ. For income, I used REALINC, which is indexed to 19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,281,56,2042,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-data-analysis","category-gss","category-income","category-iq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71596","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=71596"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71687,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71596\/revisions\/71687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}