Emil O W Kirkegaard

@KirkegaardEmil what is S?

@EikoFried general Socioeconomic factor ≈ the equivalent of g factor for socioeconomic indicators. e.g. http://openpsych.net/OQSPS/2016/01/inequality-among-32-london-boroughs-an-s-factor-analysis/ …

@KirkegaardEmil Cool, thanks. G, S, P .. thought complexity was hallmark of the 21st century, not summarizing complex things in 1 var ;)

@EikoFried Sometimes there is central dimension in multidimensional data that usefully summarizes the data.

@EikoFried Sometimes, the non-general variance seems to be close to entirely useless. Nature is weird.

@KirkegaardEmil No disagreement with either, since you understand latent as summary. Seems modern to apply realist ontology to latents :/

@EikoFried I think a network causal model is probably a good model for S, which I consider a formative construct. A useful summary index.

@KirkegaardEmil Undoubtedly. Surprised by lots of recent work on biomarkers of formative variables...not sure ppl know what they are doing

@KirkegaardEmil @JayMan471 What is the link for this graph?

@charlesmurray @JayMan471 No link yet, paper in progress. I can send you the data if you want.

@charlesmurray @JayMan471 Or, you could wait a day or two and I will have a draft ready (I'm a fast writer).