Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
In science, we are generally mostly interested in causal relationships because these are the ones that matter. Causality is generally defined in terms of counter-factuals: if things were such and such, or had been such and such, things would be such and such (instead). One can formalize this reasoning with the do-operator and related methods…
Continue ReadingThere is a list that’s floating around (meaning: copy pasted without sources), and it’s also got no exact sources, so it’s unclear how legit it is. So I did some searching to confirm, and this blogpost can then be the new reference post. I noted that some of the titles were wrong, sometimes they change…
Continue ReadingHead on over to the Arthur Jensen site for details, but here’s the video! Stay tuned, we also have a copy of the 1980 Phil Donahue Show, coming up shortly! It is discussed in the 1981 book.
Continue ReadingTwitter has generally been somewhat less censorious than other platforms, my impression. However, perhaps emboldened by the Victory of 2020, they apparently have implemented a domain block for amren.com. It blocks both public and private links. That makes it functionally the same as Facebook’s blacklist for the same domain. Public post attempt: And in private:…
Continue ReadingThe within-person (or intra-individual or within‐individual or …), design is a longitudinal design where we follow people over time as they change on some purported cause, and look at whether the purported effect also varies accordingly. This simple design is surprisingly underused despite having the strong advantage that it controls by design for both genetic…
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