Kind matters: A reply to Samuelson and Perone

Brain size matters: a reply to Peters.

Peters (1993) claimed that published research on brain size and IQ is flawed because it did not meet his list of "minimum conditions" that (a) subjects should be matched for height, weight and age, (b) analyses should be conducted separately within sex, (c) subjects should not vary in prenatal and nutritional history, (d) people with IQS appreciably below the population mean of 100 should not b...

Coupling , Constitution and the Cognitive Kind : A Reply to

Reply to Murrell et al.: Noise matters.

The concept of statistical " equitability " plays a central role in the 2011 paper by Reshef et al. (1). Formalizing equitability first requires formalizing the notion of a " noisy functional relationship, " that is, a relationship between two real variables, X and Y, having the form Y = f ðXÞ + η; where f is a function and η is a noise term. Whether a dependence measure satisfies equi-tability...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Matters Arising: Bhatnagar and Andy Reply