January 2011
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Supplementary Information 4: Project expenses
There is an intriguing new paper suggesting that people in your social network may be more or less likely than chance to share specific genes with you. I haven’t quite wrapped my head around all the analysis (Daniel MacArther at Genetic Future has a good summary), but this being one of those papers that was all over the news before actual publication, I was quite struck by some of the...
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“Most papers sit in a wasteland of silence, attracting no attention whatsoever.”
– Phil Davis via Peer review: Trial by Twitter : Nature News (via Instapaper)
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“The idea that personality traits are the validity weaklings of the predictive...”
– [P]ersonality psychologists should not apologize for correlations between .10 and .30, given that the effect sizes found in personality psychology are no different than those found in other fields of inquiry.
Brent W. Roberts, Nathan R. Kuncel, Rebecca Shiner, Avshalom Caspi, and Lewis R....
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Terminology: dimensions, factors, domains
Rough definitions for dimensional models of personality
dimension The latent thing that encompasses components, factors, and domains. This is what we are trying to study.
component, factor Yielded by EFA and PCA. Not interpreted.
domain Actual scores for each individual on a component or factor (loading).
None of this addresses the question of why personality should come out as (mostly)...
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Special issue of Philosophical Transactions B on... →