Saturday 13 December 2014

Competences of immigrants and natives

J. Biosoc. Sci., page 1 of 28, 6 Cambridge University Press, 2014
doi:10.1017/S0021932014000480

 

HEINER RINDERMANN*1 and JAMES THOMPSON†

THE COGNITIVE COMPETENCES OF IMMIGRANT AND NATIVE STUDENTS ACROSS THE WORLD: AN ANALYSIS OF GAPS, POSSIBLE CAUSES AND IMPACT

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZX0FHTnpiV3JPZDA/view?usp=sharing

Above is the link to the paper. No comments from me, but look forward to comments from you.

4 comments:

  1. Off-topic (posted this on another blog post but I wasn't sure if you would see it):
    Hello Dr. Thompson,

    Are you familiar the tests produced by Xavier Jouve and the Cerebrals organization? They can be found at http://www.cerebrals.org/wp/?page_id=27. I've taken some of the tests there like the Cerebrals Cognitive Ability Tests (CCAT) and the Jouve-Cerebrals Crystallized-Educational Scale (JCCES), and the test creator has documentation showing the g-loadings, reliability, and validity of each test. They seem accurate to me based on my scores on other standardized tests, but I was wondering if you thought they were any good as far as Internet tests go.

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    1. I will have to find a morning when I feel alert, then take several cups of coffee, and attempt to take the admission test. Either that, or look at the literature. It is in my (overflowing) in-tray.

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    2. Thank you for your response.

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  2. Very interesting and comprehensive analysis. But just as in the real (political) world, the analysis suffers from a lack of data that makes it impossible to distinguish adequately between different groups of immigrants. Politically, the indigenous population of the UK probably care much less (if at all) about immigration of say, French entrepreneurs fleeing punitive taxation (and who make a net positive contribution to tax revenues for example), than they do about other groups. Subjectively, people are making the same type of calculations that James is making. So aggregating the entire population of immigrants is not going to adequately quantify the economic and social impacts on society, hence the resultant estimates will appear too small relative to people's expectations.

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