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firethief · 3200 days ago · link · · parent · post: Self-control improves your prospects. But it may harm your health
The PNAS abstract doesn't say anything about the degree of correlation, but that scatter plot looks ridiculous - the correlation between the variables looks much smaller than the std deviation of the data, as it would be if the researchers' assessment of "self-control" were completely unrelated to future DNA methylation. Is this field of science too soft for the concept of statistical significance?