The genetics of what?

Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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A while back, I wrote a blog post about a GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Study) on the genetics of educational attainment. I mentioned how it was interesting that it was a GWAS on “educational attainment” rather than “intelligence” because, while the two seem closely connected in many people’s eyes, the latter appears more like the sort of…

Is philosophy a talent field?

Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I haven’t been posting much, partly because I’ve been busy with job applications. Today will be a short one. As I was writing a research proposal, I went back and reread this 2015 study Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines, by Leslie, Cimpian, Meyer, and Freeland. The study investigates the phenomenon where different…

Another gentle nudge to read another great book: Invisible Women

Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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I just finished this wonderful book by Caroline Criado Perez on Audible and have been talking to everyone about it ever since. (As an added bonus, the audiobook is read by the author, and she’s a great reader!) This post provides some highlights and reflections. Overall, the book is a dense collection of data on…

Is data special?

Kino specializes in the philosophy of statistics and its application in the social sciences. She looks at the methodology of social sciences in general but psychology in particular through the lens of data analysis. Kino posts under the banner "Scattered Plot".
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This post is inspired by a twitter thread on whether you should trust a summary statistic (mean/ standard deviation/ Pearson’s correlation coefficient) without seeing a plot. Most people voted “no”, which seems to be motivated by a sentiment that accepting summary statistics without seeing the plot is trusting too much. See the full thread below.…