{"id":20084,"date":"2010-07-28T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2010-07-28T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:02:02","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-wednesday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/28\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-wednesday-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another reminder, if you are a <strong>regular reader<\/strong>, and have not done so, please take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancedsurvey.com\/default.asp?SurveyID=72013\">Summer 2010 Gene Expression survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/assortative-mating-regression-and-all.html\">Assortative mating, regression and all that: offspring IQ vs parental midpoint<\/a>. Very sad: &#8220;For n = 3 (parental midpoint of 145) the mean for the kids would be 127 and the probability of exceeding 145 less than 10 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astuscience.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/25\/on-individuality-stochasticity-and-buffering\/\">On individuality, stochasticity and buffering<\/a>. I think this is relevant at higher levels of organization than cell biology as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calculatedriskblog.com\/2010\/07\/how-far-will-homeownership-rate-fall.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+CalculatedRisk+(Calculated+Risk)\">How far will the homeownership rate fall?<\/a> This is not necessarily a disaster. People are less rooted, but that means there is more fluidity in labor mobility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2261781\/\">Get a Blazing-Fast Computer for Free<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been using Ubuntu (dual boot) for years. I think perhaps it is ready for &#8220;prime time&#8221; in relation to ease-of-use for your grandmother. At least if she likes to perform BIOS upgrades!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosmedicine.org\/article\/info%3Adoi\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1000316\">Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review<\/a>. We&#8217;re a social animal. I think that the methodological individualism at the heart of American politics, liberal, libertarian, and conservative, may not be rooted in human nature. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that. But good to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another reminder, if you are a regular reader, and have not done so, please take the Summer 2010 Gene Expression survey.<br \/>\nAssortative mating, regression and all that: offspring IQ vs parental midpoint. Very sad: &#8220;For n = 3 (parental midpoint of 145) the mean for the kids would be 127 and the probability of exceeding 145 [&#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-20084","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\/20084","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=20084"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20564,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions\/20564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}