Why are the psychologists BLUPing?

Best case scenario with BLUP is it melts your computer for no reason

I stumbled across this paper today as I’m getting back into thinking about social power. The topic itself I won’t discuss here, rather I’d like to make a comment on the methodology used. This is the main result:

Fine result, what sticks out to me is they used “Bayesian multilevel models.” This means BLUP, as they don’t have a prior. I love Bayesian when …