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I was thinking the same thing - although it's not really confounding as the results are still true. It's likely an explanatory factor though.
by Blahah 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing - although it's not really confounding as the results are still true. It's likely an explanatory factor though.
- jawns 9y agoIt's confounding in the sense that if a child has the same job as their parent, we assume that parental influence may have had something to do with it. Which it probably does, in a lot of occupations. But when the "company town" effect occurs, it's not necessarily because of parental influence. It's merely a lack of other options.