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		brockf on Sept 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mi... This paper was just published this year in a reputable journal, and highlighted ongoing misunderstandings about what regressing on residualized variables actually does: http://www.clas.wayne.edu/Multimedia/wurm/files/Wurm%20%26%2... The problem continues, for sure!

capnrefsmmat on Sept 22, 2014 [–]

Oh, that's interesting, thanks. It's amazing what weird strategies people come up with when analyzing their data.

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