Bayesian interpretation of confidence intervals is fine
Most method people agree that most researchers are bad at statistics, naturally. A typical paper to show this is: Lyu, X. K., Xu, Y., Zhao, X. F., Zuo, X. N.,…
Book review: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie)
Pearl, J., & Mackenzie, D. (2018). The book of why: the new science of cause and effect. Basic Books. This is an interesting but annoying book. The basic pattern of…
Up to date introductions to psychology, stats, and genomics — 2019 March
A fellow emailed me asking for help on what to start reading to learn psychology and stats. The replication crisis means that most older psychology introductions should be viewed with…
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…
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…
The g factor and principal components regression
Jensen spent decades trying to convince people that the g factor (general intelligence) is the primary reason why IQ tests predict stuff, not whatever mental abilities the tests appear to…
Null hypothesis testing for loadings in unit weighted factor analysis
Just a minor stats point for an otherwise excellent paper. Woodley of Menie, M. A. & Fernandes, H. B., & Hopkins, W. D. (2015). The more g-loaded, the more heritable,…
Making better use of the scientific literature: large-scale automatic retrieval of data from published figures
Science is a set of related methods that aim at finding true patterns about the world. These methods are generally designed so as to remove noise from random circumstances (the…
Standard deviation of total SAT scores: not simply the sum of the standard deviations of subtests
Someone on Reddit for SlateStarCodex: AFAIK, SATs are normed to mean of 500 per section and standard deviation of 100. Assuming that math and verbal are highly correlated, that approximates…
Regression Modeling Strategies (2nd ed.) – Frank Harrell (review)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10753824-regression-modeling-strategies I heard some good things about this book, and some of it is good. Surely, the general approach outlined in the introduction is pretty sound. He sets up the…