Effects of Mothers' Overestimations and Underestimations of Their Children's Intellectual Ability: A Reanalysis of Hunt and Paraskevopoulos |
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| Authors: | Gary Glen Price Mark G Gillingham |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Curriculum and Instruction , University of Wisconsin—Madison , USA;2. Department of Curriculum and Instruction , University of Maryland , USA |
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| Abstract: | Hunt and Paraskevopoulos reported (1980a) that mothers' tendency to overestimate their children's performances on intelligence-test items had a strongly negative correlation with children's intellectual ability, whereas their tendency to underestimate had a negligible correlation. Those findings were misleading side effects of the method used to measure mothers' tendencies to overestimate and underestimate. Appropriate alternative measures are suggested in the present article, and results that would have been obtained with them are approximated. According to this reanalysis, mothers' tendencies to both overestimate and underestimate have modest but significant negative correlations with children's intellectual ability. Mothers' tendency to make accurate estimations has a moderately strong positive correlation with children's intellectual ability. |
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