Polygenic scores, genetic engineering, validity of GWAS results across major racial groups and the Piffer method

A PDF of this paper without formatting errors can be downloaded here. Abstract I review recent findings in human behavioral genetics and their implications for selective breeding and estimation of…

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New working paper: Some methods for analyzing and correcting for spatial autocorrelation

Post your review over at the OP forum: http://openpsych.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=251 Title: Some methods for analyzing and correcting for spatial autocorrelation Authors: Emil O. W. Kirkegaard Abstract A method for examining spatial…

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Betas and residualized variables / does non-g ability predict GPA?

https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/641272758257717248 https://twitter.com/pnin1957/status/641284556818096128 Let's test that. Since we don't have the original data, we can't use that. We can however use open datasets. I like to use Wicherts' dataset. So let's…

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