How Much Would the Ideal Dataset Cost?
Dear JD Vance: Please Spend $500 billion on gene sequencing every American
For a while, I’ve been frustrated with the sample sized available in sociobiological literature. We’re missing so much important data — GWAS, for example, is underpowered by a factor of at least 1/10. I groan every time some armchair analyst pulls back out the GSS — a beaten-to-death, ancient, and extremely underpowered dataset.
Social science, meanwhile…