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In article <18956@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
}It would be surprising if IQ did not correlate with spelling. Consider this
}(quoted from BIAS IN MENTAL TESTING by Arthur Jensen):
}
}"Intelligence test scores have been shown to have significant low to moderate
}positive correlations with a variety of other variables, such as ...

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So, because IQ has been found to correlate with some things, it should
also correlate with spelling?  Can you say "Hogwash!"?

A second point is the difference between a "significant" correlation and a
"large" correlation (a difference Jensen, at least implicitly,
acknowledges).  With a large enough sample size, you can make almost any
correlation significant, even if it's only .0001 or less. "Significant but
trivial" might be an appropriate description of such a situation.

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