Leila Farzan
Leila writes about research methods, statistics and teaching for students meeting these ideas for the first time. Her rule: every method gets a worked example with numbers small enough to check by hand.
Explainers by Leila
Galton's problem, or why cultures are not independent data points
Why cultures are not independent data points: Galton's 1888 objection to Tylor, a worked toy example, and the main fixes from careful sampling to phylogenies.
Cultural consensus analysis, explained with five informants
How cultural consensus analysis uses agreement among informants to estimate both what each person knows and the answer key, with a worked five-person example.
How to draw a kinship diagram, step by step
The symbols of a kinship diagram, a three-generation example drawn from a hypothetical interview, kin-type strings, and the mistakes beginners make most.