- We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?Oct 27, 2025 17:39
- So you are advocating hypothesis driven inclusion of variables (seems uncontroversial) but is it sufficient for a variable to be deemed a mediator or collider based on theory, feels like you need some empirical support and what if this isn't available for variables of interest?
- This is excellent, and I'm so glad this paper was finally written, and so clearly as well. I basically write an equivalent every time I am consulting with someone proposing this type of study, and I'm so glad I can save my effort and just send them this instead!
- Hopefully this causes a paradigm shift and stops these papers from getting through. Next we need clones of this paper for every social science discipline.
