The Enduring Effects of Education on Verbal Skills

Wolfle, Lee M.

doi:10.2307/2112492

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“…Half of the respondents in each GSS sample answer 10 of these questions, and their total score (the number of correct responses) varies from 0 to 10. I use this score as a measure of verbal intelligence, which is known to be highly correlated with general intelligence (Huang and Hauser 1998;Miner 1957;Wolfle 1980). Control variables.…”

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Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010

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The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical question in behavioral and social sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences (such as liberalism and atheism and, for men, sexual exclusivity) than less intelligent individuals, but that general intelligence may have no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values (for children, marriage, family, and friends). The analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Study 1) and the General Social Surveys (Study 2) show that adolescent and adult intelligence significantly increases adult liberalism, atheism, and men's (but not women's) value on sexual exclusivity.

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2010

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“…The 10 multiple-choice Wordsum questions are expected to be a far less accurate measure of cognitive ability than the 66 openended questions in the WAIS-III. This is confirmed by the lower but still respectable correlation of .71 with the Army General Classification Test (Hauser & Huang, 1997, p. 13;Wolfle, 1980), and the average correlations with IQ of around .75 or .80 reported by Miner (1957Miner ( , 1961 for Wordsum and related brief vocabulary tests. These earlier studies offer only a crude but nevertheless useful guide to the correlations that Wordsum might have with IQ or g if it had been administered in the GSS as part of a comprehensive IQ test.…”

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“…Wolfle (1980) reported Wordsum correlations of .71 with IQ and of .51 with educational attainment. High correlations with measures of general mental ability are expected because, in IQ test batteries such as the Wechsler tests (Kan, Wicherts, Dolan, & van der Maas, 2013) and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (Woodley & Meisenberg, 2013), vocabulary is one of the subtests with the highest g loading.…”

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Verbal ability as a predictor of political preferences in the United States, 1974–2012

Meisenberg¹

2015

Intelligence

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“…Miner's (1957) extensive review of 36 studies shows that the median correlation between vocabulary and general intelligence is 0.83. Wolfle (1980) reports that the correlation between a full-scale IQ test (Army General Classification Test) and the GSS synonyms measure (which is used later in Study 2) is 0.71. As a result, the GSS synonyms measure has been used widely by intelligence researchers to assess trends in general intelligence (Huang & Hauser, 1998).…”

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Intelligence and Homosexuality

Kanazawa

2012

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Summary. The origin of preferences and values is an unresolved theoretical problem in behavioural sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals are more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel preferences and values than less intelligent individuals, but general intelligence has no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar preferences and values. Ethnographies of traditional societies suggest that exclusively homosexual behaviour was probably rare in the ancestral environment, so the Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to identify themselves as homosexual and engage in homosexual behaviour. Analyses of three large, nationally representative samples (two of which are prospectively longitudinal) from two different nations confirm the prediction.

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The Enduring Effects of Education on Verbal Skills

Cited by 58 publications

References 15 publications

Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

Verbal ability as a predictor of political preferences in the United States, 1974–2012

Intelligence and Homosexuality

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