Monday, June 05, 2023

It's junk science

It's junk science - DAVID STROM 
"One of the most influential studies on the value of treating gender-dysphoric patients with “gender-affirming” care has been “corrected.”..
It was, in fact, bunk. 
  The Journal Public Discourse has a long and well worth reading article on why the research was terrible, and how they and others successfully pushed to get the correction...
  • As the critics asserted, once proper statistical methods were used the results turned out to be very different from the original claims. 
  • And given the limits of the data collection (they only looked at one year of data) the results would be worse with better data.
The conclusion that gender-affirming care helps patients turned out to be wrong....

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