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My proudly average movement

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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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Abe is 6 years old. Most kids in his grade 1 class can count to 20 but Abe cannot. Therefore Abe will never go to law school because law schools only want top students. Alex is 18 years old. They tried their hand at driving a couple times and almost hit a tree. Therefore Alex…

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The genetics of what?

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Kino
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…

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Genetics of education (it’s not what you think! … no quite, at least)

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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 have been taking a somewhat long break from blogging. A lot has happened recently. Some good: my partner and I just had a wedding, yay! Some not so good, which I won’t talk about today. Maybe I will at a later time. It turns out that, surprise surprise, stress does kill both creativity and…

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Is intelligence a quantity?

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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 this book, which I’m currently in the process of reading: What is a quantity? Aristotle, in his Metaphysics, defines two kinds of quantity: multitude and magnitude. A multitude is a collection of discrete objects that can be counted. A magnitude is more interesting. The Aristotelian quote says “A quantity is a…

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