Here. I have a talk to get ready for and I won’t be able to think much about this before tonight. It isn’t clear to me, in general, how much arguing I want to do here. In some ways that’s the point, but it gets…
As most readers will know, there has recently been an extended debate about the value of “heritability studies” in the journal Criminology. Burt and Simons original paper is here, with a reply from Barnes et al here, a rebuttal from Burt and Simons, here, and…
A story in the New York Times a couple of days ago, linked here. The story was prompted by a paper in Evolutionary and Human Behavior by Brendan Zietsch et al, linked here. The title says it all: “Infidelity Lurks in Your Genes.” I should say…
I am getting asked what I think of the recent paper by Polderman et al in Nature Genetics, linked here (firewall). The answer is that I am ambivalent about it, and rather than try to squeeze my thoughts into a Facebook post, I thought I might…
Chris Beam and I have a new paper out at Development and Psychopathology. Link here….
Steve Hsu replied to my blog post. (Almost a week ago! He has had about ten blog posts since then. I have never been able to keep up with the pace of blogging.) Steve wonders why I am so gloomy about the prospects for an explanatory…
I am prompted to dust off my little (well, never) used blog by a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry. I have gotten a bunch of emails about it, mostly from people who seem to think it contradicts my outlook on behavior genetics….
I just changed the name of this blog to “The Gloomy Prospect Blog,” in the hope of actually using it. The key to blogging, especially intellectual blogging, is reading. If you read in a structured and regular way, there is plenty to blog about, otherwise…
Evidence-based psychiatric genetics, AKA the false dichotomy between common and rare variant hypotheses Someone on the BGAnet Facebook group posted about this paper (I can’t find a full online copy, the link is just to the abstract.) Peter Visscher and colleagues make the point that old-fashioned genetics…
