It works in practice, but does it work in (my) theory?

There's a certain type of person that doesn't produce any empirical contribution to "Reducing the heredity-environment uncertainty". Instead, they contribute various theoretical arguments which they take to undermine the empirical…

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You can’t ignore gene-environment correlations when looking for gene-environment interactions

Humans love interactions, they tell interesting stories (however, no study has investigated this bias, AFAIK). However, statistics and nature hate interactions. Interactions in general have low prior, and because people…

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