This study uses the National Educational Longitudinal Survey of 1988 (NELS) to replicate both the analysis in The Bell Curve and that of several of its previous replications. We examine the relative importance of test scores and family background in predicting dropping out of high school, starting college, arrests, and out-of-wedlock fertility. Our results relax several arbitrary assumptions ma...

Paolo Dai Pra, Michele Pavon, Neeraja Sahasrabudhe∗ Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Padova, via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova, Italy (Dated: April 15, 2013) Abstract Using results of Pitowsky and Gupta, we show in a direct, elementary fashion that, in the case of three spins, Bell’s inequalities indeed provide a representation of the tetrahedron of all spin correlation matrices as intersec...

It is shown how the concept of Bell inequalities may be used to decide whether “superposition” states exist in mental systems. For this purpose a generalized form of temporal Bell inequalities, originally developed for two-state systems, is derived for systems with any finite number of states. We propose options for testing violations of these inequalities in psychological experiments and discu...

I identify a number of errors in Richard Gill’s purported refutation of my disproof of Bell’s theorem. In particular, I point out that his central argument is based, not only on a rather trivial misreading of my counterexample to Bell’s theorem, but also on a simple oversight of a freedom of choice in the orientation of a Clifford algebra. What is innovative and original in my counterexample is...

In a couple of recent preprints Moldoveanu has suggested that there are errors in my disproof of Bell’s theorem. Here I show that this claim is false. In particular, I show that my local-realistic framework is incorrectly and misleadingly presented in both of his preprints. In addition there are a number of serious mathematical and conceptual errors in his discussion of my framework. For exampl...

Only nite precision measurements are experimentally reasonable, and they cannot distinguish a dense subset from its closure. We show that the rational vectors, which are dense in S 2 , can be colored so that the contradiction with hidden variable theories provided by Kochen-Specker constructions does not obtain. Thus, in contrast to violation of the Bell inequalities, no quantum-over-classical ...

Bell’s (1964) theorem is popularly supposed to establish the non-locality of quantum physics as a mathematical-physical theory. Building from this, observed violation of Bell’s inequality in experiments such as that of Aspect and coworkers (1982) is popularly supposed to provide empirical proof of non-locality in the real world. This paper reviews recent work on Bell’s theorem, linking it to is...

Bell's theorem plays a crucial role in quantum information processing and thus several experimental investigations of Bell inequalities violations have been carried out over the years. Despite their fundamental relevance, however, previous experiments did not consider an ingredient of relevance for quantum networks: the fact that correlations between distant parties are mediated by several, typ...