Re: Statistics in Psychology?


seeker wrote:

Yes, I had a genetics-oriented fellowship during my masters. The more I've
learned about genetics, the more I've found out how much we don't know, and
how much we won't know for a long time. Everyone was expecting microarray
technology to have advanced several generations by now, but it's still the
same expensive, unreliable technology as 10 years ago. As of now, there is
a Wild West mentality in the genetics world, where people publish papers
that claim to have found a gene for something; follow-up work is rare, and
negative results are seldom published. Genetics has fallen out of fashion
in the biostat world for this reason.

I hadn't heard genetics had fallen out of fashion in biostat. I work
in the dept of psychiatry at a medical school and the genetics of
behavioral disorders is still a very hot topic, both in various
disorders (depression, alcoholism, nicotine addiction, autism) and in
advancing statistical methods (linkage analysis, association with
candidate genes). It's still an open question as to how much genes
influence behavior and if so, what are the genes and the biological
mechanisms by which they operate. Very exciting stuff. And not only
behavioral disorders, there is research in the two big disease areas of
cancer and heart disease regarding genetic susceptibility.

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