David_Gerard comments on Sociosexual Orientation Inventory, or failing to perform basic sanity checks

David_Gerard 7 Jun 2011 10:03 UTC
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I am reminded of a great paper, which isn’t online:

Biddlecom, Ann E., and Laurie F. DeRose. “A Cross-National Study of Virgin Births.” Journal of Irreproducible Results 38, no. 3 (May/June 1993): 9-14.
- Richard_Kennaway 9 Mar 2014 10:59 UTC
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  I am reminded of a great paper, which isn’t online:
  
  It is now. It can be found reproduced within a 1000-page screed of crackpottery here. Go down to page 211 (as reported in the page header) or 168 (as labelled within the document).
  - gwern 11 Mar 2014 2:31 UTC
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    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
    - ChristianKl 8 Feb 2016 15:36 UTC
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      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.