Nanashi comments on Some secondary statistics from the results of LW Survey - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Nanashi 12 February 2015 04:46PM

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Comment author: Nanashi 12 February 2015 11:38:29PM 3 points [-]

I'd have to do a lot more than just filter for USA. There's a strong correlation between age and income, and the LW population is much younger than the average US citizen. There's a pretty decent chance that the gap in IQ-income is more a function of age. I'd have to divide high IQ individuals into age buckets and show that their average income is higher. I don't think that data currently exists, or at least I wasn't able to find it.

Comment author: ChristianKl 13 February 2015 12:22:03AM 2 points [-]

Filtering for USA is done in a line of R code. It's not much additional effort if you already have set up the rest.

Comment author: Nanashi 13 February 2015 01:30:09AM 1 point [-]

Oh yeah, it will be easy to do. I'm just mobile right now and don't have access to the computer with the data on it. I'll update tonight though.