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I’m Gert Stulp. I like:

cats
visualisations in R
Gary Larson
Arnold Schwarzenegger (sort of)

Research

Prediction in the social sciences

Prediction and explanation in the social sciences.

Social networks

Humans are a social species, being influenced by the thoughs and behaviours of people in their networks. Characterising these networks, and getting data on them, is…

Studying the number of children people want and have

There is huge variation in the number of children people (would like to) have over time / across the globe / within countries. I try to study the determinants of this…

Visualisation in research

Visualisation is key in any project involving datapoints. Yet the reader is not ‘showered in graphical displays’ [Anscombe, 1973]. I am an active promotor of the use of…

Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour

Humans are a weird species.

Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation

My research in the past has focussed on variation in human height. In particular, how evolutionary processes have been and are shaping variation in stature. I tried to…

Latest content

Describing the Dutch Social Networks and Fertility Study and how to process it

Background: The social networks of people play a prominent role in theories on fertility. Investigating how networks shape behaviour is hard, because of the difficulty in…

Recreating density plots ‘by hand’

Where I attempt to understand density plots and get stuck on Fast Fourier Transforms.

Artikel in Demos

Als je mensen vraagt naar hun wens om kinderen te krijgen, benoemen zij soms hun ontevredenheid met de toestand in de wereld. Onderwerpen als klimaatverandering, maar ook…