See prior post on national IQs and who you can't cite. Economists and intelligence researchers don't generally talk: Test scores, on the other hand, offer direct measures of a variety of more-or-less specific abilities and, when the tests in question are well-constructed, objective, standardized tests, they are fairly precise measures that can be kept quite constant, over time and across space. Test experts know this; they also know a great deal about at least some of the abilities tests measure best but, because they are usually psychologists or educators and not economists, they tend to be preoccupied with their own non- economic questions, questions about why scores change and about the implications of such changes for individual development and for actions and policies intended to foster it. They do not usually know or care much about economists' questions, and are not likely to notice when the abilities they measure directly are the same as those economists measure indirectly. Economists are not likely to notice either, because they are generally unfamiliar with the range and quality of available psychometric data and of its potential utility.
Macroeconomics and intelligence: a collection
Macroeconomics and intelligence: a collection
Macroeconomics and intelligence: a collection
See prior post on national IQs and who you can't cite. Economists and intelligence researchers don't generally talk: Test scores, on the other hand, offer direct measures of a variety of more-or-less specific abilities and, when the tests in question are well-constructed, objective, standardized tests, they are fairly precise measures that can be kept quite constant, over time and across space. Test experts know this; they also know a great deal about at least some of the abilities tests measure best but, because they are usually psychologists or educators and not economists, they tend to be preoccupied with their own non- economic questions, questions about why scores change and about the implications of such changes for individual development and for actions and policies intended to foster it. They do not usually know or care much about economists' questions, and are not likely to notice when the abilities they measure directly are the same as those economists measure indirectly. Economists are not likely to notice either, because they are generally unfamiliar with the range and quality of available psychometric data and of its potential utility.