On Matters Evidential: A Reply

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...

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...

Matters Arising: Bhatnagar and Andy Reply

REPLY The Representation of Abstract Words : What Matters ? Reply to Paivio ’ s ( 2013 ) Comment on Kousta

words, reporting three lexical decision experiments and large scale regression analyses of lexical decision reaction times (RTs) from the English Lexicon Project (ELP; Balota et al., 2007). After controlling for imageability and context availability, along with a large number of other lexical and sublexical variables, Kousta et al. (2011) found that abstract words have a processing advantage ov...

On misinterpretations of pseudoreplication and related matters: a reply to Oksanen

Pseudoreplication has become a widely accepted label for a certain class of statistical error common in the literature of ecology as well as of other fields. A wide-ranging critique by L. Oksanen recently published in this journal criticizes the term and concept and concludes it to be a ‘‘pseudoissue,’’ one reflecting an intellectual disease, ‘‘a totally outdated epistemology’’ known as ‘‘induc...