tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post5012348124239734659..comments2024-02-15T11:55:02.998-08:00Comments on Why Homeschool: One of the benefits of having a father in a child's life - higher IQHenry Catehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03097237237859928969noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post-33792233402046277832008-10-15T21:08:00.000-07:002008-10-15T21:08:00.000-07:00You make a great point. I tried to track down the...You make a great point. I tried to track down the study, but the only place I could find wanted me to pay money. <BR/><BR/>I think most events or processes involving humans will have more that one cause. It could easily be that fathers who spend more time with children will have smart kids, and smart kids would work out ways to get attention from their fathers.Henry Catehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03097237237859928969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18436046.post-3210589460667544152008-10-08T14:18:00.000-07:002008-10-08T14:18:00.000-07:00As my old college stats professor kept drumming in...As my old college stats professor kept drumming into us, "correlation does not equal causation". I'd like to know more about the study to see which potentially confounding factors the researchers controlled for. <BR/><BR/>Even if they did a good job controlling for various factors, there's always the possibility that the direction of the causality runs the other way. Perhaps high-IQ kids do a better job at soliciting involvement from their dads than low-IQ ones. Smart kids can figure out at a very young age how to manipulate their parents...Crimson Wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03254830856234479999noreply@blogger.com