Embryo selection and genetic correlated traits: A reanalysis
There seem to be ways to post knitr documents to Wordpress blogs, but until that's set up, I will be publishing them over at RPubs and posting a link here.…
There seem to be ways to post knitr documents to Wordpress blogs, but until that's set up, I will be publishing them over at RPubs and posting a link here.…
A reader asked me to comment on the predictions/musings by Marty Nemko at his blog. I had never heard of him before, but he's some kind of coach, radio host…
I was recently asked to suggest introductory reviewing materials for bright laymen (see also my previous post). I ended up giving the following recommendations: - Intelligence: A very short introduction…
I saw this paper at random: The consequences of heavy alcohol use remain a serious public health problem. Consistent evidence has demonstrated that both genetic and social influences contribute to…
I am watching Brian Boutwell's (Twitter, RG) talk at a recent conference and this got me thinking. https://youtu.be/yDm9bCgPKvs?list=PLD7ASfe52RybK4nYTZejG4-kQYqKI1rXX What are we measuring? As far as I know, there are typically…
Normally, testing colorism or other causal models of why human racial traits have nonzero relationships to socioeconomic outcomes requires that one has the following data: Measure of racial ancestry Measures…
I forgot to post this blog post at the time of publication as I usually do. However, here it is. As explored in some previous posts, John Fuerst and I…
In the comments on this SlateStarCodex post, someone is questioning my claim that sharing the chorion (what is that?) is unimportant: Emil: Uterine environment stuff is not important. We know…
https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/16/non-shared-environment-doesnt-just-mean-schools-and-peers/ Scott Alexander has a new post out summarizing the interpretations of what constitutes non-shared environment in the ACE model estimates from standard (MZ-DZ) twin studies. I'm happy that he…
Medical researchers have noticed that some diseases differ by SIRE (self-identified race/ethnicity) groups which differ by genomic (racial) ancestry. Hence, when genomic measures became available (last 15 years or so),…