Mea Culpa 2

Here’s another brief episode covering the errors we’ve made in our last few episodes, from the very minor to the somewhat more serious.

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Show notes

* UNSCEAR numbers on birth defects caused by Chernobyl

* Adjusting for publication bias makes the effect of cash transfers on mental health disappear

* Explanation of the paradoxical effect of healthier, longer-living people having a higher risk of dementia if you control for age

* Retraction note to one of criminologist Eric Stewart’s papers notes that the study was retracted due to “a mistake in the way the original data were merged… [which,] in conjunction with the discovery of other coding and transcription errors, collectively exceeded what the authors believed to be acceptable for a published paper”. That is, not retracted for “fraudulent data”, as we stated

* Analysis by one of Stewart’s co-authors concluding that the studies were “likely fraudulent”, even if they weren’t technically retracted for that reason

* The location of Cornwall. It’s in the south-west.

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