Mortality rate for Black babies plummets when they’re delivered by Black doctors
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#2If Black doctors offered better care, I'd expect them to have similar results with black mothers and white babies. Two alternative explanations: 1. Black mothers are less willing to trust the advice of white doctors; 2. Black doctors are more likely to recommend abortion if there is risk to baby - a kind of survivorship bias
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#4It would be really-really important to use pre-registration especially in socially sensitive studies like this one. It is possible that these numbers are artifacts even if the stated p value is low.
I'm not saying that the study is wrong, just that shocking results like this one need extreme methodological rigor behind them before we start telling everyone that white doctors are killing black babies etc.
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#5Paywalled article. so of course, there's no way to confirm what paper is being cited with what assumptions, and what confounders have been addressed or looked into. Discarded.
I suspect this is a confounder (selection bias for where black doctors work?) being paraded as some racial finding.
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#6First: correlation is not causation.
Second: what percentage of obgyns are black? Could Simpson’s paradox be at play?
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#7Link to the paper: https://1410c6d1-d135-4b4a-a0cf-5e7e63a95a5c.filesusr.com/ug...
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#8Paywalled article. so of course, there's no way to confirm what paper is being cited with what assumptions, and what confounders have been addressed or looked into. Discarded. I suspect this is a confounder (selection bias for where black doctors work?) being paraded as some racial finding.
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#9Paywalled article. so of course, there's no way to confirm what paper is being cited with what assumptions, and what confounders have been addressed or looked into. Discarded. I suspect this is a confounder (selection bias for where black doctors work?) being paraded as some racial finding.
Disabling JS prevents the paywall.
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#10Even though there are only 3 comments in the thread, they are still rife with dismissive and bad-faith arguments. It's extremely telling how when black America mentions something about systemic racism in the context of the US, the response is "what's the p-value", "I don't like that sample size", "correlation != causation".
The article has studies with authors from the BIG 10 and with Ivy League heritage, but it's the mention of race that causes people to trot out canned and thinly supported reasons of doubt. Here is one of the studies if anyone is interested.
https://1410c6d1-d135-4b4a-a0cf-5e7e63a95a5c.filesusr.com/ug...