Thanks so much, Pam!

Hopefully not :)

While the return of eugenic ideology in “science" and public debate is deeply troubling, I’ve seen no genetic determinism promoted anywhere by sociologists in sociogenomics. On the contrary, there’s a strong awareness of how socially constructed genetically associated traits truly are 2/3

#anti-stereotyping: I do research of the mean all the time, but let’s not forget that we can never infer from the mean to the individual <3

Behind every mean is a distribution, and sometimes that distribution looks systematically different for different groups. I find an educational gradient in the variance of parenting. What does the #variance of your favorite outcome by your group-of-interest looks like?

Btw, Balbo and colleagues find similar patterns for parental time spend with children in @europeansocreview.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/esr/article/...

2nd, getting a good job is a more uncertain outcome with less education, and relying on a less secure, low-income job makes it harder to insulate one's family from the uncertainty of daily life let alone health or unemployment shocks -> more variance in parenting among non-degree holders

Why? 1st, the selection into education on family-of-origin characteristics and cognitive skills is not deterministic, which makes parents without high school a very heterogeneous group -> more variance in parenting among non-degree holders

The most heterogeneous group is parents without high school diplomas. Here are the distributions of the HOME cognitive stimulation score at child age 3–4 by mothers’ education, data from #NLSY-CYA

This figure should be more informative than the one above : )

I’m glad you find the ideas so self evident! Now we just need some empirical evidence 💪🏻

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