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It appears they didn't control for folks who lived together or had begun open-mouth kissing before marriage. Am I missing something?
by paulryanrogers 1y ago
It appears they didn't control for folks who lived together or had begun open-mouth kissing before marriage. Am I missing something?
- jrsdav 1y agoNot to mention how difficult it can be to transition to sleeping with a bed partner, let alone one who is an insomniac.
- benregenspan 1y ago"It can be argued that deriving a conclusive understanding from our preliminary findings is challenging without controlling for confounders (e.g., shared diet, stress exposure, and frequency of intimacy)." Seems like "stress exposure" is doing a lot of work there.
- azinman2 1y agoThis is in Iran, so presumably there’s less of that than in other places in the world?
- gwern 1y agoThis is Iran, so the researchers are often not great, or it's just straightup fraudulent. It's one of the epicenters of developing-world science fraud. So always worth keeping that in mind - there may not, in fact, be any facts that have to be explained.