Brazil has ~5500 municipalities. Everybody takes a scholastic test every year, sample size was 8.6M in 2016. So we calculate White% population and average test score. Looks like this.pic.twitter.com/W2eLtv0MrF
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Seems pretty misleading since there are many omitted variables. It also assumes white% exogenous. Did you try controlling for income, education expenditures, poverty levels?
Main causal pathway is white% -> intelligence -> social outcomes. Controlling for social outcomes is the sociologist fallacy.
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How did you get a causal pathway out of a simple regression?
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Never said I got it out of this regression.
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That's true. I just don't see how this regression is meaningful at all with only one explanatory variable
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Weird comment. I hope you keep your standards and say the same thing for every other scatterplot you see. ;) Joking aside, this plot is highly informative because many people don't know of this pattern, but it's present all over New World. Ancestry is root cause of inequality.
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I don’t see how you can justify that claim empirically. Econometrically, it’s very hard to distinguish between social outcomes -> educational outcomes and educational outcomes -> social outcomes.
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There's lots of evidence on these things. I'm sure you can read The Bell Curve, any really any textbook on IQ research, or the Rushton & Jensen 2005 review article, etc. Probably nicest economics paper on ancestry composition is https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2608567 …
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It seems it is not. We have a study (revision just submitted to Intelligence) which shows that SES effects on school achievement (var accounted for = 21%) are not mediated by SES effects on g (var = 10%). Mediated effect was 0. All participants were Greek.
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