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Barrin92yesterday at 6:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

As the paper points out that's accounted for in the analysis, because shockingly enough to most internet commentators researchers know that they need to control for confounding variables

https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194


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jrfloyesterday at 6:52 PM

Always insane to me how people will just read the headline of an article and point out "flaws" based on what they assume the article says

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jodrellblanktoday at 12:46 AM

> "researchers know that they need to control for confounding variables"

'Why ‟controlling for a variable” doesn't (usually) work' - https://dynomight.net/control/

Other things that don't work, including four other 'controlling for a variable' entries at items 39 through 43: https://dynomight.net/things/

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