In the recent post on self-esteem, a reader suggested that Asians and Hispanics have lower levels because they are shorter.
Using Add Health data, I calculated the correlation between height and self-esteem for males and females (samples sizes = 3,101 and 3,297). It is .05 and significant for guys and .01 and not signifiicant for girls. Trivial for males, non-existent for females.
How are we doing on mixing the races?
One of the strongest findings in sociology is that people follow the principle of homophily --they naturally associate with people like them...
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In the comments in the last post , some readers contended that Jews are not ethnocentric. Using the same question I used in the comments se... -
Which factor reduces family size the most? Below are the standardized OLS regression coefficients for a sample of whites ages 40-59: Stand...
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Via a reader at iSteve, it looks like this might be the vocabulary test used by the General Social Survey. (Someone please tell me if I'...
Since you sometimes post on what correlates with various attitudes on race, I thought you might be interested in this paper from Jim Lindgren. He is sticking it to the left, but his focus is on distribution.
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