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! “Personal characteristics including poise, voice, grooming, and etc.” (The superfluous “and” is icing on the bias cake.)
I was just asked to rank an applicant’s “sense of humor” on their graduate school recommendation form. Whew, I’m so glad we got rid of testing, y’all. 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.
“The 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.” New post on continuity and change:
Continuity and Change in "Tom Lake" and "How to Be Depressed"
🚨 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...
It's a big morning for Nature Human Behavior papers on which I'm the third author :) This one, a review / perspective led by @mclapps.bsky.socialwww.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
We ( @torkildl.bsky.social@eivindy.bsky.social@tibaier.bsky.social@kph3k.bsky.socialrdcu.be/dv1sp let me walk you trough it in a thread 1/?
Our article on “More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children’s academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes” is now out in Nature Human Behavior: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using a unique high-quality dataset of 37,000 parent–offspring trios, the authors probe the mechanisms of the so-called indirect genetic effects on educational attainment. Surprisingly, they find th...
With great trepidation, I've started blogging again, on my new (free) Substack: kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/coming-soon