Equation 4 · Part 1 · Forty Million Clicks Through One Uneven Door
Symbol β
What this part means
β is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Its job in the formula
β is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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The passage around this formula
…as a story fitted to confirm itself: several of the sixteen reported coefficients are small and statistically indistinguishable from zero, including individualism’s association with sparing higher-status characters ( = 0.02 ) and rule of law’s association with sparing females ( = 0.24 , not significant at conventional thresholds) [ 1 ] . A purely confirmatory analysis would be unlikely to publish its own null results this openly. But a differential-turnstile process would not predict uniformly…
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