OKCupid paper
OSF has now suspended the entire repository, not just deleted the user datafile. Not sure why this is the case. The paper (PDF) is available here. Edited to add: The repository…
Crime/violence, gender, sexual orientation, cognitive ability
In a recent paper, Beaver et al looked at the relationships between crime, gender and sexual orientation: This study examined the association between sexual orientation and nonviolent and violent delinquency…
Who prefers to date people of their own race?
Data from the OKCupid project. In light of a recent paper examining who prefers to date within their own religion, I recalled that there was a question about this in…
Error in the previous version of FA_residuals()
In the spirit of reproducible science, this is a post about an error I fixed in a function that affects all prior analyses with that. When factor analyzing data, the…
Cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset: a few simple analyses
OKCupid dataset (not public right now, contact me if you want the password). Draft paper: https://osf.io/p9ixw/ I looked at whether there was evidence for cognitive dysgenics in the OKCupid dataset.…
Change in Egyptian skull sizes: -4000 to 150
I often read statistics textbooks. In textbooks, they often use example datasets, some of which are interesting in themselves (e.g. the Boston dataset). In this case, I am reading An…
R functions for analyzing missing data
I'm reading Missing Data: A Gentle Introduction and it mentions various methods to understand how data are missing in a given dataset. The book, however, is light on actual tools.…
Estimation of piecewise linear functions
Suppose you have some dataset where you know or suspect that the real generating function is actually a piecewise function with k pieces each of which is a standard linear…
A more intuitive explanation of the correlation
Someone asks on Reddit: Can someone intuitively explain the correlation formula? I know what the Cov(X,Y) means. It tells you if the relationship between the variables X and Y is…
Scraping: temperature and precipitation data for all NOAA weather stations
Some people claim that the climate has direct causal influences on income, cognitive ability and so on. Usually, these academics just regress IQ on climate variables at the country or…
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