There is something wrong with this article, possibly just copyediting mistakes but it makes me question the whole thing.

For example, check out this mess:

> “Unfortunately, there is one significant issue with the aforementioned data: schooling. Seeing as the majority of work to date includes only aggregate data, it is impossible to account. The first concerns small N: seeing as most publish studies only include a handful of TRA data, there is a lot of room for error and over.

Unfortunately, there is a largely unaccounted for confound in this aggregate data which may make generalized analysis questionable: schooling.”

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metacritic12 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Good catch. Additionally, one of the authors on this is just a student at UWisc, and the other author is also not a professional researcher but instead an author of popular books.

This is not an ad-hominum, but does put into question the statistical training backgrounds of both of these authors to accurate assess the data.

	▲	Aurornis 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> and the other author is also not a professional researcher but instead an author of popular books. This makes the awkward wording even more confusing. I don't understand how a professional author who appears to speak English very well would write so poorly and not follow up with edits.
	▲	SilverElfin 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> but does put into question the statistical training backgrounds This is true of virtually all university research. Statistics is far more nuanced than what a semester course can teach you. And the incentives to publish can cause bad actors to use poorly defined surveys or p hack or whatever.

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Aurornis 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The language is consistent with ESL writing, in my experience.

The strange thing is that the corresponding author and the co-author appear to be english speakers, as far as I can tell. I googled the primary author and found a YouTube channel where someone by the same name speaks clearly about neuroscience. Maybe I'm looking at another person with the same name and middle initial who also happens to speak about neuroscience and brain development?