A Variant on “Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs is Harder than you Think”

1 · John Myles White · Feb. 25, 2016, 5:43 p.m.
Yesterday, a coworker pointed me to a new paper by Jacob Westfall and Tal Yarkoni called “Statistically controlling for confounding constructs is harder than you think”. I quite like the paper, which describes some problems that arise when drawing conclusions about the relationships between theoretical constructs using only measurements of observables that are, at best, […]...