Updated 23andme results (2019-01-22)
Previous results. 23andme has updated their ancestry estimates, so I'm reposting mine for people who are wondering. The change to previously is that now I'm slightly more European: 99.8% vs.…
Previous results. 23andme has updated their ancestry estimates, so I'm reposting mine for people who are wondering. The change to previously is that now I'm slightly more European: 99.8% vs.…
Paul Graham's 2004 essay What you can't say had a big influence on me and remains my favorite essay. In he argued essentially that popular morality shows fashion tendencies i.e.…
See previous post about quotes from the medical genetics and physical anthropology literature on admixture analysis and the causal interpretation. There's quite a few older admixture studies that examined relationships…
A common comment on bias in scientific peer review is that reviewers don't usually say openly they are applying double standards. Instead, they just silently increase their standards. If their…
Sometimes references are made to such findings. For instance, in Is There Anything Good About Men? (Roy F. Baumeister, 2007): Recent research using DNA analysis answered this question about two…
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…
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…
This term deserves more widespread use, since the fallacy is still so common, more than 50 years after it was given a name. I have traced the naming of it…
Modgil & C. Modgil (eds.). (1984). Arthur Jensen: consensus and controversy. Lewes, Sussex, Falmer Press In a book that's not widely-read but should be, Thomas Bouchard notes in his chapter…
Mehta, C. M., Malins, J. G., Noble, K. G., & Gruen, J. R. (2017). Cortical area and subcortical volume mediate the effect of parental education and adverse experiences on cognitive…