Matthew Yglesias

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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

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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

Also if you happen to have access to a library that might plausibly contain a copy of Thorndike (1967) the internet would be interested to know what it actually says! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 20, 2022 Hibernated