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I find it pretty concerning that they don’t mention this issue in their discussion section, which was also the first thing that came to mind when reading the ab
by DominikPeters 5y ago
I find it pretty concerning that they don’t mention this issue in their discussion section, which was also the first thing that came to mind when reading the abstract: people who’ve caught COVID may differ significantly from those who didn’t. Did none of the authors nor the reviewers think of this?
- viraptor 5y agoHave you seen "2.4. Statistical methods" and "Table 1" which discuss this? The whole paper is available below the abstract.
- DominikPeters 5y agoYes, they control for various variables that they know about. I’m not convinced this gets rid of the bias (e.g. they don’t control for working from home, many others). It is not true that they discuss this obvious objection in either 2.4 or Table 1. They only discuss methods they’ve used that very partially mitigate the issue, without mentioning the problem.
- viraptor 5y agoHow/why do you think working from home would affect the results of the infected and not infected group? We can throw lots of possible ways to divide the samples of course, but I'd like to understand why you chose that example. (and what's the threshold for "they should've mentioned criteria X")