Questions tagged [correlation]
For questions relating to correlational studies involving the exploration of statistical relationships.
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Correlation between anxiety disorders and PTSD
The mega study on the genetic correlations of psychiatric (and neurological) disorders published in Science this summer has one interesting non-correlation: between anxiety disorders and PTSD.
Are ...
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Questions on Interpreting Factor Analysis Results and Scores
I am trying to learn factor analysis and I thought it would be a good idea to try and very poorly "mimic" the computation for IQ scores with a dataset of dummy values as a way to "learn by example".
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Correlation of g and Honesty, Rationality, etc?
Are there any meta-analyses reporting the correlations of g (IQ, general mental ability) with:
Honesty-Humility (e.g. in HEXACO model).
I know Conscientiousness (of Big Five) generally has zero ...
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How is the g-factor of intelligence calculated?
I am currently reading Dr. Richard Haier's book The Neuroscience of Intelligence and I am a little confused about the g-factor. Note that I have no education in psychology outside of general ed ...
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Is there any research which compares the bond between biological siblings vs. non-biological siblings or half-siblings? [closed]
A research like: “of 100 families that we studied we found: biological siblings had stronger/weaker bond vs. half-siblings vs non-biological and 40 years later their relationship was found stronger/...
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Which personality traits are proved to correlate with any facial features?
I pretty certain I have read somewhere about certain personality traits that correlate with certain facial features, but I can't remember just what or where I read. I think the personality traits may ...
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Are any kinds of behavior proved to correlate with estrogen levels?
Are any kinds of behavior proved to correlate with estrogen levels? Any studies done on this? Any indications of such correlations?
Various research has shown correlations with testosterone and ...
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Model of human estimation of correlation tasks
I am looking for a model (bayesian or not) on how people would estimate the correlation between two variables from a given scatter plot. Any one knows of such model?
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Research on Distribution of Enneagram Types in a Given Profession
I was in a conversation with an Enneagram scholar who claimed that certain Enneagram types are more likely to hold certain specific positions or have certain professions.
Is there any data or has ...
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Islam and participation in acts of political violence
This is currently a hot political topic, but what does the science say?
I was thinking that a good experiment would take groups of people, and match them for alternate explanations: Age, gender, ...
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What are the IQ correlations between relatives?
Bouchard and McGue (1981) wrote a review article (linked here) that summarized the correlations between relatives.
McGue asserted in a recent talk (that I'm not able to link) that he's not aware of ...
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Correlation between BIS and BAS responses
As a part of my lab experiment, participants had to answer questions for BIS and BAS (BAS reward, drive and fun) scales. The correlation matrix shows that BIS is significantly positively correlated ...
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How to filter noise in EEG data
I am a computer science student and I'm doing something for a psychology professor.
We have EEG data from an experiment where a person was shown 140 images for 2 seconds each. We placed 64 electrodes ...
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Are any kinds of behavior proved to correlate with testosterone levels?
Are any kinds of behavior proved to correlate with testosterone levels?
Any studies done on this? Any indications of such correlations?
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Does Stroop test performance correlate with any personal characteristics or abilities?
Have there been any studies that found that an extremely high (or low) Stroop test score correlates with certain personal characteristics, abilities or aptitudes, or would all such conclusions be ...
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Is there a correlation or cause-effect relationship between attractiveness and feet?
My psychology professor is very hard to understand and can't speak English well. She was saying something about a study was done that found the best indicator of a physical attractiveness is feet, and ...
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Sense of time: Evaluation and correlation with psychological traits and states
Some of us are often in hurry and always late. Some make mistakes while evaluating time-needs for tasks. How is our sense of time connected with our personality? Is it more correlated with the process ...
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What personality traits does sexy and revealing clothing correlate with?
Is there some unifying characteristic that distinguishes women who wear form-fitting, lowcut, see-through and other kinds of revealing outfits?
Are they more extroverted, do they rate higher in (...
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Are motivation and efficiency inversely correlated?
Observation: Motivation and efficiency seem appear to me to be inversely correlated for most people. That is, I know some people who tend to get very excited about a goal and take large amounts of ...
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What is the correlation between feeling superior and well-being?
I have noticed in myself and others, when people perceive themselves as "better off" than the majority of others (e.g., smarter, better looking, higher social status, better brain function, more ...
