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June 2023

Which personality traits are real? Stress-testing the lexical hypothesis
This post is also available on LessWrong. Thank you to Justis Mills for proofreading and giving feedback. Most scientific personality models are…
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March 2023

What problems do African-Americans face? An initial investigation using Standpoint Epistemology and Surveys
This post is also available on LessWrong. This post started from a bit of a weird place. I was in a Discord chatroom, and someone started complaining…
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April 2022

If everything is genetic, then nothing is genetic
Understanding the phenotypic null hypothesis
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January 2022

Reductionism is not the ultimate tool for causal inference
Sometimes, when doing causal inference, people strongly wish to see a mechanism. For instance, for the claim that some trait is genetically heritable…
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Causality and determinism in social science
An investigation using Pearl's causal ladder
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March 2021

Many methods of causal inference try to identify a "safe" subset of variation
I have been thinking a lot about causality lately, and as a result I’ve come up with a common way to think of many different methods of causal inference…
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The global knowledge game; attempts to get at the deeper, more universal truths
I’m interested in very abstract, general topics; in how the world works. This is inherently a difficult proposition, which requires even more general…
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