One of my favorite topics for a scientific paper: the emergence of individuality in genetically identical animals. This one takes advantage of the fact that nine-banded armadillos, which are raised for studies of leprosy, give birth to monozygotic quadruplets (!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New one today! āPersonal characteristics including poise, voice, grooming, and etc.ā (The superfluous āandā is icing on the bias cake.)
āNatural Leaderā āWorker Beeā Nope, no potential for bias here!
I was just asked to rank an applicantās āsense of humorā on their graduate school recommendation form. Whew, Iām so glad we got rid of testing, yāall. Things are going to be so fair now.
When a stranger writes me an email saying they read my book, I am delighted. When a person I know tells me to my face that they read my book, I want a hole in the floor to open up and swallow me whole to save me from my own embarrassment.
āThe long-term patterns of our lives are difficult, if not impossible, to see from close up; the things that actually made a difference are hard to pinpoint in retrospect; and change can result in more of the same.ā New post on continuity and change:
Continuity and Change in "Tom Lake" and "How to Be Depressed"
šØ New paper! In this review, we explore factor indeterminacy and outline how we can use genetic data to test the validity of latent factors. tinyurl.com/5n75446y@tedmond.bsky.social@tuckerdrob.bsky.social@kph3k.bsky.social@andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social@michelnivard.bsky.social
The authors address the central criticism of latent variable models in behavioural science, which is that a wide range of causal models may account for the observed data (the factor indeterminacy prob...
Yep! Although no precipitation or grid failures ... yet.
@mclapps.bsky.social worked so carefully on this paper and it is definitely worth a close read