Measuring antisocial behavior well
I have previously written about issues with measuring antisocial/criminal behavior, but I found a study that did it very well, so we will be talking about it. Baker, L. A.,…
How many associations are causal? How can we find out?
Gwern has discussed this before, but here's another take inspired by this Twitter exchange: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/827259356857004032 I envision the following way of finding out: Gather a large cross-sectional dataset of MZ…
Notes on Steve Hsu’s second interview w/ Daphne Martschenko
Back in January, Steve Hsu did an interview with Daphne Martschenko who is a phd candidate at Cambridge in education. She's basically doing science journalism on behavioral genetics as far…
Measurement error and behavioral genetics in criminology
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…
Is sharing the chorion important? (No)
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…