Saturday, March 13, 2010

Race, ethnicity, sex, and social potency

A social potency score was calculated for MIDUS Study participants (all Americans) based on the following items: is forceful and decisive; is persuasive and likes to influence others; enjoys leadership roles; enjoys being noticed, being the center of attention. Here are the means by race/ethnicity and sex (N = 3,735):



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*significantly higher than men of English ancestry
**significantly higher than women of English ancestry
 
The mean for Jewish men is sixth-tenths of a standard deviation (sd) higher than the mean for English men--a fairly large difference.  The Jewish-English gap for women is smaller--a third of an sd.
 
The gender gap is largest for Mexican Americans, and smallest for Norwegian Americans.
 
The total male-female gap is about one-third of standard deviation.  According to this study, the heritability for social potency is 55%.   
 
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8 comments:

  1. See? I told you Jewish women are annoying! And the Italian women being forceful and violent...oh, yeah.

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  2. It would be interesting to see if the male to female ratio of social potency correlates with fertility.

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  3. Anonymous8:54 AM

    yeah, Jewish girls can be pretty fiery! Especially Israelis: ever try avoiding those sales girls selling dead sea salt at the malls? They will hound and harass you mercilessly!

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  4. Again Jews and Italians are similar.

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  5. Anon: Nazi salute. Works wonders.

    Works on annoying Lubavitchers who ask you if you're Jewish. But that only happens in NYC.

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  6. Stormed Trooper12:26 AM

    SFG - the Israeli gals (Mossad workers) try to sell you little RC helicopters instead of Dead Sea Salt here in SoCal. I just give 'em the glare. Being blonde, 6'3", 240, it puts them off.

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