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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Rounding the Earth‏ @EduEngineer Aug 28
      Replying to @EduEngineer @GidMK @K_Sheldrick

      Such global confounders have been found, historically, but are fewer and fewer in modern medical science because it's harder to find anything with a large effect that wasn't thought of after these many decades. Most that remain are likely tiny.

      2 replies 1 retweet 17 likes
    2. Kyle Sheldrick‏ @K_Sheldrick Aug 28
      Replying to @EduEngineer @GidMK

      Sorry I know I said I wouldn't respond anymore but I can't not bite at that. Are you serious? Is that actually a serious comment?

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    3. Rounding the Earth‏ @EduEngineer Aug 28
      Replying to @K_Sheldrick @GidMK

      My last argument is "OMG, you just wrong, man." May I invite *you* to a recorded discussion of the mathematics?

      2 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
    4. Kyle Sheldrick‏ @K_Sheldrick Aug 28
      Replying to @EduEngineer @GidMK

      Pre-Recorded? Absolutely not. Live and unedited? I'm interested. What topic, what rules?

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    5. Rounding the Earth‏ @EduEngineer Aug 28
      Replying to @K_Sheldrick @GidMK

      The topic: Do confounders specific to individual studies with no assumed relationship (correlation) have an expected (binomially normalized) effect on a p-value computed from a set of more than 1 study. Recorded live.

      2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    6. Kyle Sheldrick‏ @K_Sheldrick Aug 28
      Replying to @EduEngineer @GidMK

      Nope. That's actually not a meaningful topic and makes a number of assumptions that are invalid. Confounders specific to individual studies? Almost all confounders I can think of would be consistent across most studies of a fixed type. 1/

      3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 28
      Replying to @K_Sheldrick @EduEngineer

      I actually can't think of a single confounder that applies to clinical research that wouldn't be consistent across most if not all studies of a fixed type

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. Kyle Sheldrick‏ @K_Sheldrick Aug 28
      Replying to @GidMK @EduEngineer

      I can think of some that would apply to observation but not RCTs, but can't think of any that would just randomly reverse between studies.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 28
      Replying to @K_Sheldrick @EduEngineer

      If they did randomly reverse between studies they would pretty much by definition not be confounders tbh

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Rounding the Earth‏ @EduEngineer Aug 28
      Replying to @GidMK @K_Sheldrick

      You're really saying that all confounders must be non-local in presence, by definition? Wow. We're in crazy land now.

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Aug 28
      Replying to @EduEngineer @K_Sheldrick

      Nope that's just another of your endless straw men 👍

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