Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

tl;dr while the assumption that performance on a brief vocabulary test has some correlation to performance on longer and more robust intelligence tests is totally reasonable, I don’t think we have real empirical confirmation of that claim and certainly not a precise estimate — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But someone who tracked down an even older paper cited in the 1980 paper found that the Thorndike (1967) paper is likely referencing work Thorndike originally did in the 1940s. — PolitiTweet.org

@KirkegaardEmil Following the chain of references (I actually have a copy of Miner 1955) it looks like that WORDSUM… https://t.co/8Z0dsZMay3

Posted Aug. 20, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Since we have a lot of data on WORDSUM scores over the years thanks to all these GSS waves, it would be really helpful for psychometricians to try to redo this work and give us a better understanding of this. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2022 Hibernated