{"id":18137,"date":"2010-07-15T13:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2010-07-15T13:09:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:09:03","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-thursday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/15\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-thursday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/07\/100715110001.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Brain Size Associated With Longevity in Mammals<\/a>. Doesn&#8217;t necessarily entail causation in one particular direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0011396?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+plosone\/GeneticsandGenomics+(PLoS+ONE+Alerts:+Genetics+and+Genomics)\">A Model for Transgenerational Imprinting Variation in Complex Traits<\/a>. Easy to conceive of how these sorts of scientific models could be leveraged in public policy discussions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/07\/the-evolutionary-case-for-monogramy-ctd.html\">The Evolutionary Case For Monogamy? Ctd<\/a> One issue with eliding the distinction between the <i>is<\/i> and <i>out<\/i> is that the <i>is<\/i> often describes an aggregate population level phenomenon. If there is a lot of normal variation in the trait what it tells you about optimal medium\/long term choices for individuals may be nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2260461\/?from=rss\">By the Numbers<\/a>. About the misuse of statistics in the media and policy debates. Seems to focus on blatantly made up or implausible numbers, but there&#8217;s another problem insofar as it&#8217;s not that hard to &#8220;cook the books&#8221; in a lot of social science. Regressions don&#8217;t come up &#8220;correctly&#8221;? Perhaps reanalyzing the data differently, or rerunning the survey but coding the responses in a different fashion, will help. In these cases the researchers may even be sincere, since they &#8220;know&#8221; that the model they&#8217;re testing is robust and valid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/content\/article\/the_evolution_of_cooperation\/\">The Evolution of Cooperation<\/a>. Cooperation exists, so there needs to be a material cause. Though I&#8217;m not sure if nature of the phenomenon is analytically tractable to the puny human mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain Size Associated With Longevity in Mammals. Doesn&#8217;t necessarily entail causation in one particular direction.<br \/>\nA Model for Transgenerational Imprinting Variation in Complex Traits. Easy to conceive of how these sorts of scientific models could be leveraged in public policy discussions.<br \/>\nThe Evolutionary Case For Monogamy? Ctd One issue with eliding the distinction between the is and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-daily-data-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18281,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions\/18281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}