October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
From the abstract:
"In addition, an attempt was made to limit the review to studies that controlled for important background factors."
In other words, if you control for factors that strongly relate to height, then height has little to no effect on success at basketball.
If studies do not control for background factors, then their results may be subject to whatever influence that background factors might have.
Can't seem to access the link =\
Link is dead.
Waiting with bated breath....
While I thank Bryan for graciously providing that ungated link, I seem to be having trouble reading the results tables (they're all jumbled up). Probably something to do with the transfer from PDF.
I too was intrigued by the topic but I find the conclusion "We found that personality traits are just as important as SES and IQ in predicting these important life outcomes" (emphasis mine) hard to believe. Sounds like statistical magic.
Would like to see what Bryan thinks.
Here's a PDF version:
The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits,
Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes