Emil O W Kirkegaard on Twitter: "These name based methods are clever and could easily be expanded to many areas. One can get name origins using e.g. https://t.co/qNpStOtr48. For names not in database, one can certainly build a highly accurate predictor based on the letter patterns in the names.… https://t.co/NCBPHnTbqi"

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Noam‏ @NoamJStein 28 May 2018

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Yeah, they seem to be doing ok in St Louis: http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08873631.2015.1005880 …

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Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 28 May 2018

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USA immigration policy is quite meritocracy except for South America, so you can't really rely on it to estimate home country human capital so well. Better to aggregate data across European countries, all of which show below native results for Yugoslavians IIRC.

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HHH_Report‏ @HHH_Report 28 May 2018

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The US' refugee policies (pre-Trump at least) are not as selective as other legal immigration pathways. Look at how the Somalis, Bhutanese, and Iraqis (other refugee-descended populations) are doing in America. They're vetted for terror links, not much else.

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Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 28 May 2018

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Seehttps://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/959217364997898242 …

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Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil

Who's sending their best? https://medium.com/@jsmp/education-level-of-immigrants-to-europe-and-us-4be097a670d6 … #immigration pic.twitter.com/JkGxMEoNST

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HHH_Report‏ @HHH_Report 28 May 2018

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That data is for *all* immigrants from those regions. It doesn't rebut my argument that refugee populations are not highly-selected. The Bosnian refugees would be outnumbered by "normal" East European migrants in the data. It would be the same for the Somalis in the Africa data

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HHH_Report‏ @HHH_Report 28 May 2018

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The best way to settle this would be if someone had collected educational attainment data on refugee populations prior to their entry into the USA. Then we could check if Bosnian-Americans were drawn from a selective pool like most immigrants to the US.

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Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 28 May 2018

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You mean similar to Brain Drain dataset? I am trying to work with what can possibly be gotten here, not dreamy perfect datasets no one has. http://www.iab.de/en/daten/iab-brain-drain-data.aspx …

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HHH_Report‏ @HHH_Report 28 May 2018

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In the absence of perfect datasets, we can also look at media/ethnographic reports of populations in the US that mostly consist of recent refugees. IMO, these reports suggest that refugees in America are not highly-selected like other immigrants. E.g. http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_4_No_11_1_September_2014/22.pdf …

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Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 28 May 2018

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I don't trust media reports, but one can do some quantitative studies of some of them. Have you seen work by J Fuerst on US recent African immigrants? http://humanvarieties.org/2015/11/05/the-measured-proficiency-of-somali-americans/ … and http://humanvarieties.org/2015/10/28/using-surnames-to-assess-ethnic-aptitude/ … See also http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=5347

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HHH_Report‏ @HHH_Report 28 May 2018

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I've read many of his other posts on HV, but not those two. Thanks!

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Emil O W Kirkegaard‏ @KirkegaardEmil 28 May 2018

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These name based methods are clever and could easily be expanded to many areas. One can get name origins using e.g. http://behindthename.com/ . For names not in database, one can certainly build a highly accurate predictor based on the letter patterns in the names.

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  One can certainly also do this for every other ethnicity, including Jews, so it is one way to quantitatively study the JQ. I suggested using this on book titles/metadata before to test KMac model claims.
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