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"responders via an online survey" so there's a self-selection bias. You are selecting the people that chose to seek out a diagnosis of this infection, and such
by hackerlight 4y ago
"responders via an online survey" so there's a self-selection bias. You are selecting the people that chose to seek out a diagnosis of this infection, and such people are probably more neurotic and anxious.
Also did they control for age, relationship status and number of cats owned? Multiple cats owned is sometimes caused by loneliness in my experience so the causality may be easy to mix up.
- ineptech 4y agoI don't think this is true; it looks like they collected a pool of participants, asked them questions, and then found out who was/wasn't infected. See the "Materials and Methods" section.