After correcting for a modest number of confounders, they found that kids whose mothers were stressed when they were pregnant were more likely to have mental health problems when they grew uppic.twitter.com/jLgOLhB9BZ
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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
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
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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