Vaniver comments on Why Are Individual IQ Differences OK? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 20 August 2013 07:34:00AM *  2 points [-]

And E(X's deserved SAT score|X's measured SAT score; X is male) - E(X's deserved SAT score|X's measured SAT score; X is female) was, like, four points?

For applicants scoring 800 on a hypothetical normally distributed math SAT, yep. For normally distributed tests, shrinkage is linear based on the difference between the group mean and the measured mean, and so it's smaller for less extreme scores.

(For some reason, I'm having difficulty finding the link to the actual conversation; I think Google search is not going into deep comment threads, and the search function is based off the site, rather than just a database of my comments. Anyone remember helpful keywords further upthread to get a link to the actual conversation?)

I still think people's System 1 are likely to overestimate this difference if they know about the correlation more than underestimate it if they don't.

Saying "we shouldn't explicitly calculate something because some people might implicitly calculate that thing incorrectly" sounds to me like going in the exact wrong direction.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 August 2013 12:58:02AM 2 points [-]

(For some reason, I'm having difficulty finding the link to the actual conversation; I think Google search is not going into deep comment threads, and the search function is based off the site, rather than just a database of my comments. Anyone remember helpful keywords further upthread to get a link to the actual conversation?)

Here is Wei Dai's tool for searching LW comments.