Genomic data can be useful here! "The careful integration of genomic data ... provides a particularly rigorous and tractable empirical means of distinguishing between theoretical models with potentially differing implications for understanding risk and developing treatments and interventions."
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."
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/?
work led by @michelnivard.bsky.social@torkil.bsky.social — be sure to check out their feeds!
Multiple types of genetic studies attest that families transmit educational advantages *environmentally.* This study used genetics in an extended pedigree to further explore these environmental processes beyond the nuclear family.
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...
This is so encouraging; thank you!
Thank you for the encouragement!
With great trepidation, I've started blogging again, on my new (free) Substack: kathrynpaigeharden.substack.com/p/coming-soon