Perplexed comments on I Want to Learn About Education - Less Wrong

7 Post author: fiddlemath 20 January 2011 03:46AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (39)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Perplexed 23 January 2011 03:42:43PM *  1 point [-]

I think we are in rough agreement, though I think you stated this backwards:

However, intergroup variability is higher than intragroup variability

Actually, and empirically, variability within a group is relatively high and variation between groups rather low. (More technically, group membership explains only a small fraction of the total variance.) And you seem to understand this below, with your estimate that three out of four genes bearing on intelligence will not be closely correlated with race.

Comment author: Vaniver 23 January 2011 03:52:19PM *  1 point [-]

I think you stated this backwards:

Thanks! I did, fixed. I should also mention that I'm being loose by assuming all genes that impact intelligence do so by roughly the same amount, which is obviously not true.