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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Aug 2020

      I am not going to sink into a detailed methodological critique because 1) while I hate their antique methods this is unnecessary to make my point, and 2) I am writing for a general audience and want to demonstrate that any idiot can reject papers that uses such methods badly

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Aug 2020

      heres some text from the methods section along with some of the figures from the paper depending on your background you may find your eyes glazing over before opening it or you may be shouting imprecations at your phone good news if your former! it doesnt fucking matterpic.twitter.com/Kowy5rCDSn

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Aug 2020

      heres a dumb person version of the Findings meditate on it for a moment before we continuepic.twitter.com/xH2bmj9qnH

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Aug 2020

      "black babies were three times more likely to die if overseen by a white doctor" really REALLY fucking really @Fixed_Effects is the corresponding author and he may take this thread as my Correspondence

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Aug 2020

      suppose for a moment that this were actually true what do physical reality do you imagine might cause this outcome? what specific actions can you imagine all white doctors taking that no black doctors take that would *triple* infant mortality independent of everything else?

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    6. halvorz ¯\_(ツ)_/¯‏ @halvorz 18 Aug 2020
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      note that this is not actually what they found black infant mortality rate is triple the white rate, the effect they see drops that to (afaict) ~double the white rate

      2 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
    7. (((Maiq T. Onesimus))) 🕯‏ @MaiqTL 18 Aug 2020
      Replying to @halvorz @eigenrobot

      Were you able to see how they determined the pediatrician's ethnicity?

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    8. halvorz ¯\_(ツ)_/¯‏ @halvorz 18 Aug 2020
      Replying to @MaiqTL @eigenrobot

      "Physician race is not coded by the data and is captured from publicly searchable pictures of the physician." non-white, non-black doctors were dropped from the analysis

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    9. (((Maiq T. Onesimus))) 🕯‏ @MaiqTL 18 Aug 2020
      Replying to @halvorz @eigenrobot

      That seems suspicious. Thanks for looking that up!

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    10. philemon‏ @phil49472744 18 Aug 2020
      Replying to @MaiqTL @halvorz @eigenrobot

      it does but tbf it does not seem they had another way to do it and they do seem to have taken steps to do it accuratelypic.twitter.com/5qwatPMx8z

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Aug 2020
      Replying to @phil49472744 @MaiqTL @halvorz

      lol if this is pure measurement error the "true" coefficients should be /greater/ ironically this possibility of measurement error decreases my confidence in the studys results

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        2. philemon‏ @phil49472744 18 Aug 2020
          Replying to @eigenrobot @MaiqTL @halvorz

          I get how measurement error would underestimate coefficients but why would it have different effect on white/black?

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 18 Aug 2020
          Replying to @phil49472744 @MaiqTL @halvorz

          well I mean it would bias downward estimates of p(death | black, everything else) - p(death | everything else) and the other thing

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