Reading a paper about how controlling for the amount of time people are willing to spend on a task pretty much knocks out a huge amount of the task's supposed predictive value and uh 😬 persistence/motivation/ability to spend effort sure is a wild unmeasured confounder on a LOT of things

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Predictive value for what kinds of questions?

@robryk in this case it's about cognitive ability estimates and refining our estimate of exactly how much this effect can go unmeasured based on certain implementations of the testing

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