This paper is posted here for now because there is a 3 paper author limit on the number of submissions per journal. Once (if!) one of the submitted papers gets published, then I will move this one to the submissions forum.

Journal:
Open Quantitative Sociology and Political Science

Authors:
Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
John Fuerst

Title:
Socioeconomic Inequality in the US: Ethnicity, Racial Admixture and Environmental Causes

Abstract:
General socioeconomic factor (S) scores were calculated for US states by SIRE (self-identified race/ethnicity) groups based on 3 indicators. The S factor loadings were generally but not always stable across subgroup analyses and the factor scores were generally stable across factor analytic extraction methods (almost all r's ≈ 1). For Whites, Blacks and Hispanics, there were strong correlations between cognitive ability scores and S factor scores across states (r's = .55 to .78; N's = 28-50). This pattern also held when all data were analyzed together (r = .86, N = 115). Furthermore, the size of the Hispanic-White and Black-White S and cognitive ability gaps strongly correlated across states (r's = .62-.69; N's = 36-37). Lastly, parasite prevalence did not plausibly explain SIRE gaps in cognitive ability because gaps were smaller in more parasite-rich states (combined analysis r = -.17, N = 91).

Previously, we looked at the association between overall state-level racial ancestry and overall state-level outcomes. It was found that European ancestry relative to African and Amerindian ancestry was associated with better outcomes. This analysis was extended by looking at the state-level ancestry-outcome associations individually for Black and Hispanic SIRE groups. For Blacks, state-level European and Amerindian admixture was positively associated with better outcomes (mean r's = .28 and .27), while African admixture was associated with worse outcomes (mean r = -31, N = 31). For Hispanics, African and European admixture was related to better outcomes (mean r's = .36 and .13), while Amerindian admixture was associated with worse outcomes (mean r = -.40; N = 24-34). These SIRE specific state-level results were only partially consistent with the overall state-level ones.
Finally, it was found that climatic and geospatial variables did not correlate strongly with cognitive ability and S scores when scores were decomposed by SIRE group, but did so at the total state-level, even after statistical control.

Key words:
inequality, general socioeconomic factor, S factor, USA, United States, states, cognitive ability, IQ, intelligence, NAEP, race, SIRE, group differences, cognitive sociology, sociology of intelligence, ecology of intelligence

Length:
5400 words, excluding references.

Files:
https://osf.io/dzqen/files/

Reviewers:
We will attempt to get some of the authors who has published on this topic to review. Meisenberg is also a good choice.

May I ask why Emil O. W. Kirkegaard is obsessed with racial and sex differences? And with confirmation biases?

Don't try to derail threads.