Obvious to me from the first paragraph. Odd that it allegedly took these people 40 years. I'm skeptical of the assertion that Fisher wouldnt have been smarter.
Great example of collider bias in Pearl's new causality book (pop sci-ish version). I knew where he was going immediately when he mentioned the birthweight variable. Sibling control studies are a neat way to get around this problem since they control for stable parent traits.pic.twitter.com/wXIvHsL5N4
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No amount of intelligence can defeat a strong prior against the truth.
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Didn't some people do some studies that suggested that in fact having higher intelligence just allowed for more elaborate reality denial? I think it was in pol sci.
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There are some links to related studies in this text https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/08/27/academe-should-avoid-politicizing-educational-attainment-opinion …pic.twitter.com/fdBd7BlcpJ
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"Our hypothesis is that the function of reasoning is argumentative. It is to devise and evaluate arguments intended to persuade." https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00904097/document …
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Why Smart People Are Vulnerable to Putting Tribe Before Truth:https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-smart-people-are-vulnerable-to-putting-tribe-before-truth/ …
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Political commitments can scramble your brain and impair your ability to reason – especially if you're smart. Original Study (N = 1,111): https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/22105/833.pdf … Replication (N = 1,600): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3026941 …
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More Education Means More Polarization https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/opinion/democrats-partisanship-identity-politics.html …pic.twitter.com/eBGNUZ4oLs
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Krieger & Davey Smith used the birthweight paradox to show the limitations of Pearl's approach and to argue for the superiority of "triangulation" (they're right IMO):https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/45/6/1787/2617188 …
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