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What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings?

thomasprosser.substack.com published 2022-03-30

In an important new paper, Rafael Ahlskog and Sven Oskarsson show that half of the effect size in observational studies, even in conservative estimates, is composed of confounding.

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