1. A statistical trap associated with family size.
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Bytheway, Bill and Bytheway, B
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FAMILY size , *MIDDLE class families , *CHILDREN , *ACADEMIC achievement , *PROBABILITY theory , *CHARTS, diagrams, etc. , *FAMILIES , *MATERNAL age , *SEX distribution , *SOCIAL classes , *STATISTICS , *EDUCATIONAL attainment - Abstract
A recent paper published in this journal (Poole & Kuhn, 1973) has reported that ‘a relatively large family appeared to be no impediment to the educational achievements of middle-class children’. This finding, however, is based upon an analysis which fell into a relatively unknown statistical trap. Poole & Kuhn are only the latest in a long line of victims of this trap and some of their predecessors are reviewed below. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1974
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