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...

Beyond the factor indeterminacy problem using genome-wide association data - Nature Human Behaviour

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...

Why do people care about the factor indeterminacy problem?Because they care about how the results of factor analysis are interpreted. The paper kicks off with a little SJ Gould: "We cannot reify g as a ‘thing’ unless we have convincing, independent information beyond the fact of correlation itself."