Rest in peace, Hugo. I'll never forget the quality time he and Rachael and I spent together during the height of Covid.

Cool! I do remember attending a session in ECP21 were this paper (doi.org/10.1038/ncom...) was discussed, cool stuff! Would you think that stocasticity might be the key factor here? And could it actually be a source of variability behind individual differences in humans?

The paper you linked is one of my all time faves. It really forced me to consider the fundamental constraints on the research I do for a living. Yes! And also, what *is* stochasticity? is it true randomness, or some emergent chaos-emerging-from-minute-differences-in-environment thing?

The reason why I ask is that I always *assumed* we automatically assign things an age, too.

But this is refuted by Mario (the video game Mario). He doesn't have an age. Nobody cares. It doesn't matter how old he is. He's 40? He's 20? Doesn't matter.

commenting because nobody else has responded with "Boy Scout Eggs" which my long islander college friend called it.

It's hard to know what's moderate! But, IMO, Sewall Wright inventing SEM seems like it would probably be worth more than 4,000 citations in ~100 years

Wright, S. (1934). The method of path coefficients. The annals of mathematical statistics, 5(3), 161-215.

I was using it as a last resort... and it worked!

AH! thank you, Whitney!!!!

I'm thinking: r = .-25 with neuroticism, .20 with extraversion; .15 between openness and having zoom on your computer in the first place.

Sweet. This is such a great example of the policy relevance of genetic research.