Disclaimer: Some not too structured thoughts. It's commonly said that correlation does not imply causation. That is true (see Gwern's analysis), but does causation imply correlation? Specifically, if "→" means…
Title says it all. Apparently, some think this is not the case, but it is a straightforward application of Bayes' theorem. When I first learned of Bayes' theorem years ago,…
In reviewing our upcoming target article in Mankind Quarterly (edit: now published), Gerhard Meisenberg wrote: “One possibility that you don’t seem to discuss is that there are true and large…
The problem Apache gives an error 500 (internal server error) when trying to access website running django 1.9 using wsgi based on the tutorial given at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-django-applications-with-apache-and-mod_wsgi-on-ubuntu-14-04. Running the server…
The problem: To install a virtualenv (virtual environment for python) under a common (not user) folder, so that it is accessible to other users. If we try without using sudo,…
Apparently, only a few studies have examined this question and they are not easily available. Because we obtained these, it makes sense to share our results. The datafile is on…
It is common to talk about traits being monogenic or polygenic. We say that Sickle-cell disease is monogenic because its heritable variation among humans can be accounted for by a…
My situation is this: I run linux Mint from Windows 8.1 using Virtualbox. I have disabled the numlock (and the other *lock keys) in Windows by rebinding my keyboard using…
This may have some interest. Basically, typologists cannot into statistics and it shows. On the other hand, it means there is a large number of low hanging fruit for someone…
(Broad-strokes modeling of how to think about immigrant performance. Some references are gone because they were written using the Zotero plugin, which I later uninstalled. I have re-added those I…