mwengler comments on Notes on Psychopathy - Less Wrong

18 Post author: gwern 19 December 2012 04:02AM

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Comment author: mwengler 20 December 2012 03:14:17PM 0 points [-]

Virtually any kind of statistical study is going to require you to classify into different groups using some thresholding definition. To fail to do so is to make any reportable results muddier and muddier.

Comment author: jsalvatier 20 December 2012 07:05:33PM 1 point [-]

I don't think so, just use the ASPD score as a predictor in a linear regression. Seems like an obvious response, so maybe I didn't understand what you said.