Scientists expose hidden false positives in microbiome mediation studies
A systematic benchmark shows that widely used microbiome mediation methods produce inflated false discoveries under compositional effects, prompting a new ...
Tag: causal inference
Childcare as a Magnet: New Nurseries Briefly Draw Families Back to Italy’s Fading Interior
A first-of-its-kind causal study of all Italian municipalities finds that opening a nursery significantly boosts net migration in remote inner ...
New BriDGE Protocol Aims to Reveal Why Behavioral Interventions Actually Work
A new open-source protocol called BriDGE combines directed acyclic graphs, causal discovery algorithms, and generalized additive models to help behavioral ...
Large-Scale Experiments Face a Reckoning in the Digital Era
A large consortium of academic and industry researchers maps six open challenges facing large-scale randomized experiments, from organizational incentives and ...
Grain-Free Dog Foods Cleared in Major Two-Year Study of Canine Heart Disease
A two-year analysis of nearly 50,000 dogs in the Dog Aging Project found that grain-free diets showed no association with ...
Neighborhood Parks Tied to More Children and Weekday Foot Traffic in Tokyo
A large study of Tokyo railway station areas finds neighborhood parks are associated with more children and greater weekday worker ...
Social Science Papers Increasingly Overstate Cause and Effect, Study Finds
A large-scale analysis using large language models and experiments shows that overreaching causal claims are common and increasing in the ...
Scientists Defend Childhood Obesity Study Methods in Heated Journal Exchange
Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Fudan University have published a formal response defending the methodology of their pediatric obesity ...
Clarifying Causal and Translational Inference in Ambient PM2.5 Lung Cancer Studies
A new study published in British Journal of Cancer this week tackles a problem that has haunted many air-pollution investigations: ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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