In practice, it doesn't take that much time (you quickly learn to only do the work necessary to pass). And most of the courses are about how to do research (a lot of stats and phil. of science), and others are also semi-useful (e.g., popular research communication). But a few wasted hours for sure.

At all Norwegians universities too

📜New article w/Borsboom, @sachaepskamp.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1192/bjp....

I’m also coming down more and more on the side of “no, causal over-claiming cannot be blamed on journalists.” Sometimes, they may be the source of misinterpretations. But often, the articles themselves are carefully crafted to imply causality while maintaining plausible deniability.

Excited to share my first PhD publication at #MPRGBiosocialwww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A 🧵 1/11

This is super interesting! I look forward to reading this more thoroughly.

Thanks to my wonderful coauthors (torvik.bsky.socialrosacheesman.bsky.socialeivindy.bsky.social, and several blueskyless colleagues), the anonymous reviewers, the funders, and our blueskyless institutions.

The theoretical analysis is thoroughly extended in the supplementary, where we investigate consequences of (e.g.,) environmental transmission, gene-environment correlation, imperfect polygenic indices, disequilibrium, and more.

In the paper, we provide a thorough and accessible explanation of how assortative mating affects genetic similarity between different relatives using path analysis.

This could indicate that the full consequences of assortative mating on these traits, such as increasing differences and between-family variation, is yet to come about.