Review: Quantitative Research in Linguistics: An Introduction

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19823567-quantitative-research-in-linguistics http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3bb68f8bfea90338ad2efa04569108e2 There are few good things to say about this book. The best thing is on the very first page: Some things never change: the sun rises in the…

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Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)

It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the…

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Empirical math, or how experiments can increase our confidence in mathematical conclusions despite access to formal proofs

Earlier posts: Something about certainty, proofs in math, induction/abduction, Is the summed cubes equal to the squared sum of counting integer series? The things I'm going to say for math…

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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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