Power laws and human society
Granted, it is a bit of a strange name, a power law. Is that a particularly powerful piece of legislation? Not at all. It is a kind of statistical distribution,…
Worldwide height variation explained
There's a lot of variation across the globe in average height. It looks like this (per OWID): Furthermore, there has been a significant increase in the last century: We also…
Sexual promiscuity by sex and orientation
There's debate about the decline of sex, or how the young people these days aren't what they used to be. There's plots like this one: I'm pretty sure there is…
Yes, Elon should clone himself now
Speaking of other science advances we could make right now, human cloning is a good opportunity. Why spend time optimizing embryo selection if we can just take a genome we…
Ending the IRB nightmare
Suppose you are running a company that has a website. You are wondering whether marketing campaign A or B works best. Which one do you go with? Why not both?…
Accelerating genetic science: turning around the data access censorship
James Lee, authors of many GWAS studies wrote a piece in 2022 entitled Don't even go there saying that NIH is increasingly censorious regarding data access. Since it is short, I…
Strangely, I couldn't find much newer data.
Could the US government fix the journal cartel problem?
I think most people are unfamiliar with how the scientific publication and prestige system works. It works like this: Scientists submit papers to journals for publication. This means they start…
A hereditarian revolution, maybe
Back in February, Nathan Cofnas wrote an influential piece A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution, in which he wrote: The prospect of a hereditarian revolution strikes some people as inconceivable…
Herding, polls of polls and Bayes’ theorem
You have probably heard of that outlier Iowa poll that gave a surprisingly large advantage to Harris in the 2024 election. Related to this is that is what forecasters call…
When do simple methods outperform regression?
This is a nerdy post of little interest to the layman. There's this old paper that sometimes comes up: Dana, J., & Dawes, R. M. (2004). The superiority of simple…
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