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brain sizes: Einstein's and women's

Mark D. Morin mdmpsyd at NOSPAMgwi.net
Tue Jul 9 05:32:33 EST 2002


John Knight wrote:
> "Mark D. Morin" <mdmpsyd at PETERHOOD69gwi.net> wrote in message
> news:3D2A32F8.6026B006 at gwi.net...
> 
>>John Knight wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is this true?  Is this how the IQs of men and women were "equalized"--by
>>>throwing out 94% of the test?
>>>
>>>No wonder the IQ tests don't correlate with things like GRE scores,
>>
> which DO
> 
>>>correlate with brain size http://christianparty.net/grebrainsize.htm
>>>
>>>John Knight
>>
>>IQ scores correlate very well with GRE scores. in the order of 0.86 IIRC
>>--
> 
> 
> Most of the corrlations I've gotten are in the range of 0.6, so it would
> really be appreciated if you could provide a reference to the above.

0.6 is not a low correlation--it explains over one third of the 
variation in scores.  In any other field, an R of this size would be 
considered robust.

my resources are at the office, I'll dig them out today.


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