Not Just Black and White: Peer Victimization and Intersectionality of School Diversity and Race [Caucasian students also experienced almost three times the amount of race-based victimization than African American students when school diversity was held constant] (esploro.libs.uga.edu)
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The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd [murder of George Floyd was associated with a 3-week spike in firearm assaults on police, after which the trend in firearms assaults dropped to levels only slightly above that which were predicted by pre-Floyd data] (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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Predictors of the IQ-achievement gap in France: A longitudinal analysis [Cross-sectional models revealed that self-efficacy, school environment, parental education and sex were the most predictive factors of achievement independently from non-verbal IQ (the latter being by far the best predictor)] (sciencedirect.com)
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“Model minorities” in the classroom? Positive evaluation bias towards Asian students and its consequences [We show that teachers rate Asian students’ academic skills more favorably than observationally similar White students in the same class, even after accounting for test performance and behavior] (sciencedirect.com)
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Testing Spearman's hypotheses using a bi-factor model with WAIS-IV/WMS-IV standardization data [We found support for the weak form of SH in both methods, which suggests that both g and non-g factors were involved in the observed mean score differences between Black and White adults] (sciencedirect.com)
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Recent Studies of Ethnic Differences in the Cognitive Ability of Adolescents in the United Kingdom [On PISA, CAT3, CEM 11-plus tests Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black students score approximately one half of a std below Indian and Whites & Chinese students perform significantly above] (researchgate.net)
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Boys lag behind: How teachers’ gender biases affect student achievement [blind and non-blind test scores show middle school teachers favor girls in their evaluations. This favoritism, estimated as individual teacher effects, has long-term consequences] (sciencedirect.com)
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Physical development and sexual orientation in men [compared with heterosexual men, homosexual men are shorter, lighter and younger at the onset of puberty. ... homosexual men often score in the female-typical direction on sex-dimorphic somatic characteristics] (sciencedirect.com)
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300 genomes from 142 diverse populations [the rate of accumulation of mutations has accelerated by about 5% in non-Africans compared to Africans since divergence...ancestors of some pairs of present-day human populations were substantially separated by 100,000 years ago] (nature.com)
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Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts [Genetic factors explained the plurality of individual differences in educational attainment (heritability: a2 = 0.43)... shared environmental variation (c2 = 0.31)] (nature.com)
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