“Doctors don’t cure nothing”
NSFW As I observed before, modern medicine is subject to some of the same statistical issues as social science in its tendency to put unwarranted spotlight on preferred false positive results. Trials and Errors – Why Science Is Failing Us: This doesn’t mean that nothing can be known or that every causal story is equally […]
How do relatives correlate in traits?
The Pith: Even traits where most of the variation you see around you is controlled by genes still exhibit a lot of variation within families. That’s why there are siblings of very different heights or intellectual aptitudes. In a post below I played fast and loose with the term correlation and caused some confusion. Correlation […]