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Dan Major-Smith
@djsmith90.bsky.social
Recovering Evolutionary Anthropologist/Accidental Epidemiologist/Cat fosterer
PostDoc at Aarhus and Senior Research Associate at Bristol
Interests: cooperation; religion; causal inference; cohort studies
Site: danmajor-smith.netlify.app/about
129 followers216 following38 posts
We all know that – alongside global warming, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and other evils – selection bias is one of the largest threats to humanity* But how bad exactly is selection bias? This is what we aimed to explore in our recent paper: doi.org/10.1080/2153... *Perhaps a slight exaggeration…
Dan, you forgot Bibi Netanyahu in your list of evils.
First: What the frig is selection bias? If participation in research is non-random, then our analytic sample will differ from our target population of interest. This sample-population mismatch can result in selection bias, potentially messing up all our lovely causal inferences.
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Dan Major-Smith
@djsmith90.bsky.social
Recovering Evolutionary Anthropologist/Accidental Epidemiologist/Cat fosterer
PostDoc at Aarhus and Senior Research Associate at Bristol
Interests: cooperation; religion; causal inference; cohort studies
Site: danmajor-smith.netlify.app/about
129 followers216 following38 posts