Comment on Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008) (2000) [pdf]parentComments−jmmcd4yYes - to be clear, the author knows this is the confounder. That's why it was silly of the author to claim that the paper would describe a correlation without a trivial confounder.−hedora4yLand area isn't well-correlated with the other three columns in the table.−jmmcd4yYes it is! I calculated R = 0.58, 0.81, 0.92, respectively. These will be highly significant, comparable to the p-value in the headline.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QTEB7KF1PXBV_TjgBsuV...
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Yes - to be clear, the author knows this is the confounder. That's why it was silly of the author to claim that the paper would describe a correlation without a trivial confounder.
Land area isn't well-correlated with the other three columns in the table.
Yes it is! I calculated R = 0.58, 0.81, 0.92, respectively. These will be highly significant, comparable to the p-value in the headline.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QTEB7KF1PXBV_TjgBsuV...