For those that don't know, OSF -- Open Science Framework -- runs a pre-registration challenge where one can win 1000$. No small amount of cash for doing more research. But…
The below is a conversation with a female friend I had. Or perhaps it was a conversation from Emil's devious research methodology class. Who knows. :) [She wants to compare…
Quoted from Textbook of Human Reproductive Genetics, chapter 13: PGD within the“autonomy model” According to what may be called the “autonomy model,” prospective parents are free to use PGD in…
A colleague of mine has an old crappy computer. I am thinking about searching for some money to buy him a newer one with two large screens. This got me…
Some of the talks from ISIR 2016 in Saint Petersburg are now online. In particular, I enjoyed Detterman's talk, but of course I think he is too pessimistic about reproductive…
Following the publication of another gender pay gap article, I wondered: What kinds of gender gaps do people think are important to talk about? Googling stuff is a crude measure…
http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/208757 Analysis of the data collected so far, presented side by side with R code. It will be expanded into a proper paper and submitted to OQSPS soonish. Soonish 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.…
One of the things that bother me with the current research on gender differences in personality is the reference group approach problem. Researchers ask questions that require participants to make…