These involve new measures of personality as well as the availability of ways to impose statistical controls on the many potentially confounding variables. Taking advantage of these methods ...

Obviously, these two examples are deliberately ridiculous, but they illustrate the type of logic that can take place when looking at data and making connections between two variables that are not ...

2 Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, A University of Montreal Affiliated Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada 3 Department of Psychology ... A binary physical ...

To account for potential confounding factors, the researchers controlled for demographic variables such as age, gender, marital status, health status, and education. They also included measures of ...

But this study also analyzed "breastfeeding duration as a continuous variable, providing a more ... authors noted the risk of confounding by infant illness and the unmeasured role of parental ...

3 National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, PO Box 220, FIN-00520 Helsinki, Finland Correspondence to: Dr M Kivimäki Department of Psychology ... be attributable to obesity.

Most startups fail from cofounder tension, not bad ideas. This post unpacks myths that quietly destroy partnerships—and how ...

A bruising selloff in longer-term U.S. Treasury yields extended into a third session on Wednesday, as traders continued to dump bonds in a move that has confounded market participants for an asset ...

Take the apparent rash and confounding firing of Kyla Johnson-Trammel, Oakland’s longest-serving school superintendent in 65 years. I join a vast coalition of civic leaders in praising her ...

But as the old adage says, "What goes up, must come down." And with HELOCs' variable rates, that means HELOC costs could rise, too. Does this make them too risky to take on? Compare today's top ...

They often rely on small, non-representative samples, produce inconsistent results, fail to control for key confounding variables, and lack reliable replication. What remains is a patchwork of ...