For a while, I’ve been frustrated with the sample sized available in sociobiological literature. We’re missing so much important data — GWAS, for example, is underpowered by a factor of at least 1/10 . I groan every time some armchair analyst pulls back out the GSS — a beaten-to-death, ancient, and extremely underpowered dataset. Social science, meanwhile, is rife with p-hacking. What if there were a way to solve all of these problems forever? I think there is — and now is the time to talk about it. People are saying that JD Vance reads X.com and could somehow fund HBD. They are making modest proposals like “give a little more money to HBD.” But will this solve the underpowered
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