Here’s another brief episode covering the errors we’ve made in our last few episodes, from the very minor to the somewhat more serious.
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Show notes
UNSCEAR numbers on birth defects caused by Chernobyl
Adjusting for publication bias makes the effect of cash transfers on mental health disappear
Explanation of the paradoxical effect of healthier, longer-living people having a higher risk of dementia if you control for age
Retraction note to one of criminologist Eric Stewart’s papers notes that the study was retracted due to “a mistake in the way the original data were merged… [which,] in conjunction with the discovery of other coding and transcription errors, collectively exceeded what the authors believed to be acceptable for a published paper”. That is, not retracted for “fraudulent data”, as we stated
Analysis by one of Stewart’s co-authors concluding that the studies were “likely fraudulent”, even if they weren’t technically retracted for that reason
The location of Cornwall. It’s in the south-west.
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