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For instance, once all other factors are controlled for, it is clear that students from rural areas tend to do worse than average. Suburban children, meanwhile, are in the middle of the curve, while urban children tend to score higher than average. (It may be that cities attract a more educated workforce and, therefore, parents with smarter children.) On average, girls test higher than boys, and Asians test higher than whitesБЂ”although blacks, as we have already established, test similarly to whites from comparable backgrounds and in comparable schools. Knowing what you now know about regression analysis, conventional wisdom, and the art of parenting, consider the following list of sixteen factors. According to the ECLS data, eight of the factors show a strong correlationБЂ”positive or negativeБЂ”with test scores. The other eight donБЂ™t seem to matter. Feel free to guess which are which. The child has highly educated parents. The childБЂ™s family is intact. The childБЂ™s parents have high socioeconomic status ...»