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(As a side note, there appear to be a few numerical errors in the paper, such as this one in the table above)pic.twitter.com/XB7m1aiQ20
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If you read that table, kids exposed to "any" stress have 3.37x the odds of having any diagnosis of personality disorders, but the confidence interval goes from 1.61x to 7.07x That's ~huge~
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TL:DR: - association between stress in pregnancy and kids getting personality disorders - very weak - risk increase is tiny - statistical analysis is problematic - HUGE potential for residual confounding - ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT SOMETHING FOR MUMS TO WORRY ABOUT
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Now, while the media certainly had a role to play in the misinterpretation of this study, I think the problem started in the conclusions This is not well worded at allpic.twitter.com/cIm8jvpLvi
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The authors have been quoted elsewhere saying that this definitely isn't causal, but if you read the conclusions of the study it sounds like it absolutely is That's a huge problem
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