Re: PISA Scores and IQ

On May 21, 5:43 am, RichAsianKid <richasian...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> On May 20, 3:50 am, israeliteknight <israelitekni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> > > How can jews do what they did if they're as STUPID as their scores
in
> > > "Israel" prove they are?  I'm looking at the table from PISA on mere
> > > READING, and jews can't even READ. "Israel" scored 439, which is 217
> > > points lower than Korea and only 46 points higher than half-black
> > > Brazil [and Indonesia and Montenegro].   It seems about two standard
> > > deviations lower than the median for the OECD countries.
>
> Here's a chart showing the correlation between IQ and PISA/TIMSS
> scores at the national level:
>
>    http://i26.tinypic.com/znanh1.jpg
>
> International *****sment of Educational Progress [IAEP]-II 1991, TIMSS
> 1995, TIMSS 1999, TIMSS 2003, Programme for International
> Student *****sment [PISA] 2000, PISA 2003, Progress in International
> Reading Literacy Study [PIRLS] 2001)
>
> Legend: R-reading, M-math, S-science, P-problem solving, thus TM-8 99
> =3D TIMSS Math Section Grade 8 1999; PS-15 03 =3D Pisa Science Age 15
2003=

> *****sment etc.
>
> Note how high the correlations are at the national level between g and
> PISA and TIMSS scores... All 0.90+ !!

And one more....economists now recognize the im****tant of IQ....as
surrogate marker of human capital....

      http://tinyurl.com/29mwzb

IQ and economic growth: Further augmentation of Mankiw=96Romer=96Weil
model

Rati Ram
Economics Department, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
61790-4200, USA

Received 11 November 2005;
revised 5 May 2006;
accepted 5 May 2006.
Available online 11 October 2006.

Abstract

Solow's growth model is further augmented to include IQ in addition to
proxies for education and health. The estimates indicate that IQ
variable *greatly erodes* the size and significance of education and
health parameters and *dominates even a measure of institutional
quality*.  [my emphasis]