tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post1987759443345758167..comments2024-03-24T21:25:13.059-07:00Comments on Inductivist: More on European ancestry and IQRon Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-30616187033372135582010-05-13T19:33:07.342-07:002010-05-13T19:33:07.342-07:00Identification as black vs. mixed race may in part...Identification as black vs. mixed race may in part be driven by ideology rather than biology. In other words, it could very well be that some mixed people with more militant political views will choose to identify as fully black.<br /><br />PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-4027971491477776012010-05-13T10:46:35.656-07:002010-05-13T10:46:35.656-07:00Several different papers have also reported this, ...Several different papers have also reported this, including <a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.23.1019&rep=rep1&type=pdf" rel="nofollow">Harris and Thomas</a> in 2001 and <a href="http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/files/MR%20KIDS%207.1.08.pdf" rel="nofollow">Fryer and Levitt</a> in 2005:<br /><br /><i>"Figure 7 presents academic outcomes. Mixed race adolescents are less likely than blacks or whites to have a learning disability. Their AHPVT [Add Health IQ] scores are roughly in the middle of blacks and whites. While blacks fare .89 standard deviations worse than whites, mixed race children lag .33 standard deviations behind. On our other two achievement variables (grade point average and whether or not a student repeated a grade), mixed race adolescents are between blacks and whites but more similar to blacks."</i>Jason Malloyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04855482153162314172noreply@blogger.com