http://mindhacks.com/2005/06/10/a-critical-look-at-the-genetics-of-orgasm/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2005/06/10/a-critical-look-at-the-genetics-of-orgasm/#comment-8346 Sat, 11 Jun 2005 05:06:31 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/06/10/a-critical-look-at-the-genetics-of-orgasm/#comment-8346 Dr. Boynton makes some interesting points concerning the way sexual (dys)function is operationalized in the study. One fundamental problem with her criticism though is that if she’s right that the questions the authors use are misconceived or confused, the net result should be a lower estimate of heredity. Under the most commonly used twin study designs, poor measures (i.e., low reliability) result in inflation of the unshared environmental estimate. So if anything, the fact that the researchers obtained an estimate of moderate heredity from just a couple of questions should suggest that the actual value is somewhat higher (unless the researchers already corrected for attenuation–I haven’t read the original report)…

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2005/06/10/a-critical-look-at-the-genetics-of-orgasm/#comment-8345 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:26:52 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/06/10/a-critical-look-at-the-genetics-of-orgasm/#comment-8345 Carl Zimmer has a post about this:
http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2005/06/09/o_is_for.php
And he points out that Elizabeth Lloyd herself has something to say about the topic over at the Philosophy of Biology blog
http://philbio.typepad.com/philosophy_of_biology/2005/06/lisa_lloyds_vie.html

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