The discussion of the performance of African immigrants led by Chanda Chisala has been of unusually poor quality. As such, I thought that I might write a brief tutorial post on how to locate data and estimate differences in hopes that this will inspire better research practices and more rigorous debate. I will also elaborate on the Jensenist position and its predictions, as Chanda, and apparently many others, do not seem to have a good grasp of it at least in its quantified form.
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I originally intended on including and briefly discussing these values in my “Ethnic/Race Differences in Aptitude” paper since therein I touched upon differences in Asian American subgroup performance (e.g., Table 15 and Table 17). Alas, I ran out of both space and my reviewers’ patience. Since the general topic continues to arise, I thought I might mention them, though. The 1996 and 2000 National Postsecondary Student Aid Studies (NPSAS 1996/2000), which were representative of the university populations at the respective times, contained both an “Asian origin” variable and a composite SAT score one, thus allowing for some investigation of subgroup variability. In expressing the differences, I used citizen/U.S. born White values as a reference for the SAT scores. Standardized differences were computed using the total group standard deviations, since population specific ones were unavailable. NA means that the sample sizes did not meet NCESDataLab’s cutoff for reportability. And negative values mean that the groups in question performed better than U.S. born/citizen Whites. As the confidence intervals — not shown below — were large for all of the Asian subgroups, results should be interpreted with caution. It’s notable that there were large U.S. born/non-U.S. born effects for both East and South Asians. The scores were for college students, so this might represent a foreign student effect (as opposed to a generation 1/generation 2+ immigrant one).
| NPSAS 1996 and 2000 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 2000 | ||||||
| Nationality | non-Citizen | Citizen | All | Nationality | Not US Born | US BORN | All |
| Chinese | 0.01 | -0.66 | -0.44 | Chinese | -0.28 | -0.64 | -0.46 |
| Korean | -0.38 | -0.63 | -0.54 | Korean | -0.12 | -0.82 | -0.37 |
| Japanese | NA | NA | -0.79 | Japanese | NA | -0.20 | -0.06 |
| Filipino | NA | -0.17 | -0.13 | Filipino | NA | 0.03 | 0.12 |
| Vietnamese | 0.86 | -0.18 | 0.31 | Vietnamese | 0.61 | NA | 0.39 |
| Asian Indian | 0.47 | -0.96 | -0.43 | Asian Indian | 0.22 | -0.88 | -0.24 |
| Asian/PI (total) | 0.29 | -0.37 | -0.19 | Asian/PI (total) | 0.10 | -0.41 | -0.12 |
| White | 0.08 | Reference | 0.00 | White | -0.03 | Reference | 0.03 |
| Black | 0.84 | 0.87 | 0.87 | Black | 0.74 | 1.00 | 0.96 |
Used the total group standard deviation
Source: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas/
Apparently so.
Fuerst, J., Kirkegaard, E. O. (2014). Do National IQs Predict U.S. Immigrant Cognitive Ability and Outcomes? An Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshman. Open Differential Psychology.
Abstract
We discuss the global hereditarian hypothesis of race differences in g and test it on data from the NLSF. We find that migrants country of origin’s IQ predicts GPA and SAT/ACT.
