What's going on with white maternal mortality? Is it about older moms, or just less healthy moms?
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Replying to @literalbanana @toad_spotted
tiny numbers, lots of noise http://www.schs.state.nc.us/data/maternal/Table4_MMReport2013.pdf …
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That makes a lot of sense-the actual number of deaths is low enough that you really can't come to any conclusion from single state's figure
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also you probably already know about this but I only just learned about the hispanic paradox this year
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Replying to @literalbanana @toad_spotted
apparently can be detected in maternal mortality as well as overall mortality
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Replying to @toad_spotted @literalbanana
trouble w/ studying maternal/infant outcomes is problems you care about are rare enuf you're underpowered to detect plausibly-sized impacts
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yeah but if you "happen" to get a shocking result from your underpowered study you're rolling in clicks/citations
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Right, the old "the more underpowered I am, the more GIGANTIC the effect sizes I can fish out of the ocean" routine
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