Yvain comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion
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On the other hand, here's a study that shows a very strong link between impulse control and weight. I'm not really sure what to believe anymore.
The impulse control they use is a facet of Conscientiousness; and we already know Conscientiousness is highly heritable...
Yes, but it is still potentially useful to know how much of the heritability is metabolically vs. behaviorally manifested.
Also more generally, we should be careful about mixing different levels of causation.
Unless I'm missing something, they don't describe the size of the effects of personality that they found, just the strength of the correlations.
I'm not too clear on how to interpret hierarchical model coefficients, but they do give at least one description of effect size, on pg6:
and pg8:
Thanks. Those differences are small compared to common differences of BMI, though.
Well, yeah, you should've expected that from the small correlations.
I don't have much knowledge of statistics. You may have forgotten what that's like.
In principle, something (e.g. how much the mother eats during the pregnancy) might affect both those things, with no causal pathway from one down to the other.