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.
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.