I was referencing (my limited understanding of) your trait-based Price Equation partitioning work. It is my understanding that the context dependent effect is a term which represents any variance not partitioned into either the species richness, or species composition effects. Hence ‘left over’, or seemingly unexplained, variance.
Like I said, my understanding of this work is limited so this could very well be misinterpretation. I brought this up with you during the q&a after your talk at McGill in 2010.
Thanks for the note!
No, the context dependence effect isn’t “unexplained” or a “remainder” term. It’s analogous to “transmission bias” in evolution (which isn’t “unexplained” or a “remainder term” either). Have another look at Fox 2006 Ecology.
George Price’s life could be made into a good biopic, I think. It’d be like A Beautiful Mind.
It’s a good thing I was a postdoc in the UK for 4 years, and so absorbed enough of the culture to find that picture only mildly tasteless rather than totally tasteless…
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The horror of left over variance…
Except the Price equation is exact; there’s nothing left over…
I was referencing (my limited understanding of) your trait-based Price Equation partitioning work. It is my understanding that the context dependent effect is a term which represents any variance not partitioned into either the species richness, or species composition effects. Hence ‘left over’, or seemingly unexplained, variance.
Like I said, my understanding of this work is limited so this could very well be misinterpretation. I brought this up with you during the q&a after your talk at McGill in 2010.
Thanks for the note!
No, the context dependence effect isn’t “unexplained” or a “remainder” term. It’s analogous to “transmission bias” in evolution (which isn’t “unexplained” or a “remainder term” either). Have another look at Fox 2006 Ecology.
George Price’s life could be made into a good biopic, I think. It’d be like A Beautiful Mind.
There are also horror pictures based on Price’s death on the web 0-: http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/group/west/collab.html (scroll down to Andy Gardner).
It’s a good thing I was a postdoc in the UK for 4 years, and so absorbed enough of the culture to find that picture only mildly tasteless rather than totally tasteless…
Impious was my association.