From the twin studies we know that parental enviroment has relatively little effect on educational outcomes compared to genetics.
A quick Googling brings me to statistics like single fathers are more likely to be black. Given that blackness does correlate with poor educational outcomes, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a correlation of single motherhood with poor educational outcomes simply because of the sampling.
To be convinced of any effect of parental enviroment I would want to see an effort made to clear up the data to be convinced and most Google hits do’t do that.
If I have a discussion a thousand times I usually do have my sources saved in a way that I can easily share.
I also doubt that you had the same conversation a thousand times because “You make claims about strong effects of parental enviroment and those generally disappear when studies are done in a better way” is likely a different position then when you have the same discussion outside of LessWrong with people who have quite different objections.
Are there specific statistics about the metrics you are referring to?
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From the twin studies we know that parental enviroment has relatively little effect on educational outcomes compared to genetics.
A quick Googling brings me to statistics like single fathers are more likely to be black. Given that blackness does correlate with poor educational outcomes, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a correlation of single motherhood with poor educational outcomes simply because of the sampling.
To be convinced of any effect of parental enviroment I would want to see an effort made to clear up the data to be convinced and most Google hits do’t do that.
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It’s not clear to me why you aren’t linking to quality sources if you think the quality sources for your claims exist.
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If I have a discussion a thousand times I usually do have my sources saved in a way that I can easily share.
I also doubt that you had the same conversation a thousand times because “You make claims about strong effects of parental enviroment and those generally disappear when studies are done in a better way” is likely a different position then when you have the same discussion outside of LessWrong with people who have quite different objections.