gwern comments on Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 11 March 2014 02:31:50AM 3 points [-]

Amusing paper. For those uninterested in downloading 100M of crackpottery (as indeed it is), I've cut out the relevant bit as a standalone PDF: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85192141/1993-biddlecom.pdf

Comment author: ChristianKl 08 February 2016 03:36:31PM 0 points [-]

Money quote:

With this wealth of information on mothers, house- holds, and communities, we chose the time- honored and most effective approach for analysis: a huge correlation matrix.