magfrump comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: magfrump 01 December 2012 04:15:47AM 2 points [-]

I'm interested in this analysis but I don't think the results are presented nicely, and I am not THAT interested. If someone else wants to summarize the parent I promise to upvote you.

Comment author: gwern 01 December 2012 04:42:33AM 5 points [-]

I... thought I did summarize it nicely:

But we know they correlate with IQ, and quite a few respondents included ACT/SAT1600/SAT2400 data while they didn't include the IQ; so all we have to do is take for each standardized test the subset of people with IQ scores and people without, and see if the latter have lower scores indicating lower IQs. The results seem to indicate that while there may be a small difference in means between the groups on the 3 scores, it's neither of large effect size nor statistical significance.

Comment author: magfrump 01 December 2012 05:03:46AM 4 points [-]

That is actually better than I remembered immediately after reading it; with the data coming after the discussion my brain pattern-completed to expect a conclusion after the data. Also the paragraph is a little bit dense; a paragraph break before the last sentence might make it a little more readable in my mind.

I had already upvoted your post, regardless :)

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