Table 1.
Descriptive statistics (N = 10,113).
Table 2.
Measurement Model Fit Statistics and Selected Parameter Estimates (N = 10,113).
Table 3.
Selected Parameter Estimates from Educational Attainment Models (N = 10,113).
Fig 1.
Response surface plot illustrating interaction of latent perceived attractiveness and parental education on educational attainment.
Parental education ranges from 1 to 5. The latent dimensions of perceived attractiveness have mean 0 and standard deviations .40 and .44 for personality attractiveness and physical attractiveness respectively. The graph thus captures roughly plus/minus 2 standard deviations. The z-axis illustrates how the effect on educational attainment varies across the ranges of perceived attractiveness and parental education based on the parameter estimates reported in Table 3, Models 2 and 3.