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June 23, 2009

Determinism Is Not Just Causality

Filed under: Self Help — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 8:00 pm
(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The Co-Editor, Hart Blanton, requested that we not post the entry until the newsletter appeared, which he estimated would be around July 1. I post it now because colleagues have begun to receive the newsletter. In the next few days, I shall post

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June 16, 2009

One outlier and you’re out: Influential data and racial prejudice

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 5:02 pm
Currently preparing a presentation on analyzing influential data in mixed effects models myself, my eye fell on an article in which important claims on racial prejudice were refuted. An important aspect of the criticism on existing work, is that in one article the main correlation was completely due to a single observation. Solely based on [...]... Blanton, H., Jaccard, J., Klick, J., Me

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