The regression line, per se, implies no such thing. Not to belabor the point but the author was well aware of this and mentioned it in the passage I previously quoted from the paper, which I’ll repeat here:
It is obvious from the plot that the nonwestern names fall substantially below the regression line, indicating an omitted variable.
As an aside, your conjecture proved false, as expected:
Finally, none of this had anything to do with the main points of the paper. This highlights the problem of posting a graph without context and without link to the original source. Others then run with it without understanding where it came from. It is a disease of social media. As you say, many such cases.
Hang on a moment – setting aside the surprisingly small number of Islamic-named individuals in the Danish military (in a country which is being flooded with Islamic immigrants), why is there a link between names and IQ in the old dying white Danish population?
A Danish individual who was named Sabrina or Mike at birth is reportedly lower class and dumber than one who was named August or Malthe. Names as a proxy for IQ?
It’s not a question of why. There was a clearly stated prediction (quoted above) and it proven false, as I predicted. Simple as. There was no discussion of causality.
Perhaps. The regression of the “western” only data suggests that. I don’t recall if the author had anything to say about that vis a vis “western” names.
Addendum: Giving this a bit more thought, I think you’d agree that “western” names, even within the US, are indicative of social status, which in turn correlates with IQ. For example, girls named Shaniqua and Madison are likely to come from very different backgrounds. Same goes for boys named Jethro and Archibald. Stripper names, such as Candi and Bambi, probably don’t belong to the sharpest knives in the drawer. Of course, there are always outliers.
This highlights the problem of posting a graph without context and without link to the original source. Others then run with it without understanding where it came from. It is a disease of social media. As you say, many such cases.
I like plots, graphs, and charts. I collect them. Pretty plots, ugly ones, informative or contentious ones, examples of good and bad plotsmithing, plots I agree with and those I do not. I created The Potpourri as a place to share them. As I wrote in the OP, ”No theme and, unfortunately, often little context or sourcing. No warranty expressed or implied.” This one (which I did not post) is an example of a regression line chasing outliers. Whether the authors knew or cared about that it not relevant; the regression line chased those Islamic points.
Maybe the reason that Denmark is exceptional regarding immigration is that, unlike the other countries in the graphic, the Danish government has not allowed their country to be overrun by immigrant hordes. As of 2020, about 14% of the population was of non-Danish ancestry, including about 11% foreign born. The proportions of foreign-ancestry individuals is over twice that number (14%) in the Netherlands and Sweden. It probably also matters where these migrants come from. Most of immigrants to Denmark seem to come from the EU.
Yes. Agreed. I don’t recall when I came across that book, but it was either in undergrad or grad statistics. I’ve used it many times in presentations.
My first use of the Huff quotation: My first scientific paper was a wee bit controversial, as it ran counter to the conventional wisdom of the time. At my first scientific conference presentation, another scientist stood up and flatly informed me that I was wrong. It seems he tried to replicate my result and could not. In the back and forth, however, it emerged his result was different in a very minor and completely irrelevant manner. The discussion ended with my quoting Huff. We did not speak again for decades.
Isn’t Denmark the place where Danish citizens tried to stage marches through Muslim immigrant areas which were “No Go” to the Danish police?
Isn’t Denmark the place where Mark Steyn and others (now deceased or in hiding) had to have police protection to hold a meeting which the Usual Suspects considered “anti-Muslim”?
Federico grew emotional as he recounted how his young daughter had been visiting friends in Columbia, South Carolina on May 3 when she crossed paths with Alexander Dickey, 30, a repeat offender with a rap sheet of 39 arrests, including 25 felonies.
