New publication: Technical comment on "Racial resentment predicts eugenics support more robustly than genetic attributions"

My new publication is a technical comment on the Schneider and Gonzalez 2021 article "Racial resentment predicts eugenics support more robustly than genetic attributions".

The experience with the journal Personality and Individual Differences was great. The journal has a correspondence section that publishes technical comments and other types of correspondence, which seems like a great way to publicly discuss research and to hopefully improve research. The authors of the article that I commented on were also great.

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My comment highlighted a few things about the article, and I think that two of the comments are particularly generalizable. One comment, which I discussed in prior blog posts [1, 2], concerns the practice of comparing the predictive power of factors that are not or might not be equally well measured. I don't think that is a good idea, because measurement error can bias estimates.

The other comment, which I discussed in prior blog posts [1, 2], concerns analyses that model an association as constant. I think that it is more informative to not model key associations as constant, and Figure 1 of the comment illustrates an example of how this can provide useful information.

There is more in the comment. Here is a 50-day share link for the comment.