Xref: utzoo comp.ai:4689 sci.psychology:2218 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!usc!pipiens.usc.edu!osborn From: osborn@pipiens.usc.edu (Tom Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.psychology Subject: Re: Genetics and IQ Summary: Correlations between parent occupations and educations and kids Keywords: The Burt Affair Message-ID: <19553@usc.edu> Date: 29 Aug 89 19:52:36 GMT Expires: 10 Oct 89 07:00:00 GMT References: <3229@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <4537@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <5680@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1434@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> Reply-To: osborn@pipiens.usc.edu (Tom Osborn) Followup-To: comp.ai Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 40 In article <1434@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> kja@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (krista.j.anderson) writes: >No answers here, but I do have some related questions: >Have any studies been done on SAT or ACT scores that use an >analysis of variance or other technique to see whether (and >if so how) scores are affected by the students' *parents'* >educational level and socio-economic class? About ten years ago a friend of mine - Les Bobis - did a similar study to the one you suggest in Newcastle, Australia. I helped with the statistics. The study involved 15 year olds and looked at parent occupation, parent education, parent aspirations for themselves and for the kids, and on the kids' side, aspiration and performance in various aptitude and performance tests. "Social status" of the parents' occupations was also included, and the study was stratified. The correlations were SO HIGH, that the write up was mainly as case studies. All factors were significant (6+ sigmas, mostly)!!! Basically, the kids performed and aspired to a level a bit higher than the parents expected of them and a bit higher than the parents had achieved. This also applied to IQ (except, of course, the parents didn't 'expect' their kids' IQ scores, but they did rate their 'smartness' in a rankable way). >Then next step, of course, would be to look at adopted children's >scores compared to their step-parents. :-) As far as I know, Les didn't publish, but may get 'round to doing a more extensive study one day. I do recall his study including citations to similar work. >Krista A. Tom Osborn. *** AT USC for 6 months *** --- Tom Osborn, | Doon or Task Varoom School of Computing Sciences, | the Belt holes - University of Technology, Sydney, | Eat holes, PO Box 123 Broadway 2007, AUSTRALIA. | few.