From 07e8adfff2b36855819fc8a8ab3c50e5a138282b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 20:32:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] "Gayjar Jamming": the gut suspects measurement error --- content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md b/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md index 16b28d8..c2730a1 100644 --- a/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md +++ b/content/2022/gaydar-jamming.md @@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ I don't think Prof. H.'s voice was quite that extreme? Maybe it was only 2 or 2. And the effect size of childhood sex-typed behavior on sexual orientation [is around _d_ ≈ 1.3](/papers/bailey-zucker-childhood_sex-typed_behavior_and_sexual_orientation.pdf), so I'll actually go with roughly similar numbers for L. -I could easily be wrong about the specific numbers, but I'm confident that this is the correct _methodology_. (Assuming that predictions don't causally [or otherwise](https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05060) affect the things being predicted—but how likely is _that?_) My old anxieties about committing heresy have dissolved in the knowledge that it is, really, just a math problem. +I could easily be wrong about the specific numbers. (My gut expects a _skilled_ "gaydar operator" to be more reliable than _d_ ≈ 1.1, which could still be true if the published statistics are [deflated by the measurement error](/2019/Sep/does-general-intelligence-deflate-standardized-effect-sizes-of-cognitive-sex-differences/) of less perceptive raters?) But I'm confident that this is the correct _methodology_. (Assuming that predictions don't causally [or otherwise](https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05060) affect the things being predicted—but how likely is _that?_) My old anxieties about committing heresy have dissolved in the knowledge that it is, really, just a math problem. -- 2.17.1