SQL server for population frequencies from 1000 genomes
Note: 2018 June 26 Server down right now, investigating. Note: August 16, 2017 server IP changed to 67.207.92.10. Original post We need dplyr for this: library(dplyr) First, use the anon…
Book review: Hive mind (Garett Jones)
Read Gwern's review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1433728829 Aside from that, it's a lot of wasted opportunity. For instance, the income~IQ relationship. The discussion is extremely economisty. Not even mentioned that people vary a…
Individual genomic admixture and cognitive ability
So, I posted this: Abstract We used data from the PING study (n≈1200) to examine the relationship between cognitive ability, socioeconomic outcomes and genomic racial ancestry. We found that when…
Useful datasets for country of origin analyses
Here's a collection of previously unused datasets (by hereditarians) that are useful. Australia: 45 and Up. Huge, n=250k, medical dataset that has country of origin and many socioeconomic indicators. Costs…
ggplot2 functions in kirkegaard package
http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/215493
Causal effects of head injuries revisited
Comment on: Sariaslan, A. et al. (2016). Long-Term Outcomes Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood and Adolescence: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study of a Wide Range of Medical and…
Could the OpenPsych journals qualify as outlets for OSF’s preregistration challenge?
For those that don't know, OSF -- Open Science Framework -- runs a pre-registration challenge where one can win 1000$. No small amount of cash for doing more research. But…
Could we really find out what penis attributes cause orgasms?
The below is a conversation with a female friend I had. Or perhaps it was a conversation from Emil's devious research methodology class. Who knows. :) [She wants to compare…
Medical geneticists on PGD for non-medical purposes
Quoted from Textbook of Human Reproductive Genetics, chapter 13: PGD within the“autonomy model” According to what may be called the “autonomy model,” prospective parents are free to use PGD in…
AIMs/SNPs, genomic ancestry and measurement error
The fewer SNPs (which may be AIMs or not) used to estimate individual-level ancestry, the higher the measurement error. Here I just dump some findings related to this topic. The…