December 2011
5 posts
Whatever you do, somebody in psychometrics already... →
Andrew Gelman notes a long-standing principle in statistics.
Heart of Darwin
It is hard summarizing the heart of a great idea or the intellectual history of a paradigm being integrated in a few words or even a paragraph. I think I have a hard time doing it, so I am interested in instances that don’t quite seem to capture it.1
Going over various thinking on the evolution of psychological diversity, I came across Tooby & Cosmides2 contending that
At the heart...
Phylogenetic inertia in primate sociality
Social structure seems to evolve more slowly than morphological adaptations. Shultz and co. tested alternative models of the evolution of social structure in primates and challenge the notion that social structure adapts fluidly to ecological conditions (the ‘socioecological hypothesis’). This fits with the observation that social and behavioral evolution in macaques is also highly...
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Interesting new search-citation engine that tracks down how many people are reading, citing, bookmarking, and blogging about articles, data, presentations, genes, and code. This generalized the citation of traditional articles and makes them only on instance of a research object.
I searched for a few of my papers and Total Impact turned up Mendeley listings and a blog post by Elizabeth Preston...