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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6d

Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials
using directed acyclic graphs

Although the ideal randomized clinical trial is the gold standard for causal inference, real randomized trials often suffer
from imperfections that may hamper causal effect estimation. Stating the estimand of interest can help reduce confusion
about what is being estimated, but it is often difficult to determine what is and is not identifiable given a trial’s specific
imperfections. We demonstrate how directed acyclic graphs can be used to elucidate the consequences of common imperfections,
such as noncompliance, unblinding, and drop-out, for the identification of the intention-to-treat effect, the total
treatment effect and the physiological treatment effect. We assert that the physiological treatment effect is not identifiable
outside a trial with perfect compliance and no dropout, where blinding is perfectly maintained

Table 1 showing the Identifiability of target estimands depending on whether there is blinding, full compliance, and no drop-out

An example DAG from the paper.
Fig. 4: A blinded trial with noncompliance.

U are unobserved confounders, Z is treatment assignment, C is compliance, X is the realized treatment, S is the subject's physical and mental health status, Xself and Xcln are the treatment that the participant and the clinician believed the participant received, Y is the outcome.

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Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · 16d

Hilft ja nix.

Oliver @oli.run · 16d

Muss, ne.

Faust-Bot @faust-bot.bsky.social · 16d

Und Ihr?

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 16d

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Opinion: Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Social Research Institute) outlines his new research that highlights a peak of unhappiness among the young, which then declines with age. He exp...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 3

Calling it a novel contribution bc "mildly different from three others but messier" was too long to fit the abstract

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Patrick Präg @ppraeg.bsky.social · 26d

Quite amazed by the articles that @sociologicalsci.bsky.social puts out on a regular basis -- this one here by Lewis Anderson: imaginative, bold, well-informed, an incredible eye for detail, this will really be moving the field forward

doi.org/10.15195/v12...

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 28d

Sociology instructors, take note: classic sociological theory makes an appearance on the menswear guy's account!

(Actually, many of his posts have sociological content.)

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28d

In 1902, German sociologist Georg Simmel neatly summed up fashion in an essay titled "On Fashion." Fashion, he asserted was simply a game of imitation in which people copy their "social betters." This causes the upper classes to move on, so as to distinguish themselves. Then the game repeats itself.

Text reads: "Fashion is the imitation of a given example and satisfies the demand for social adaption; it leads the individual upon the road which all travel, it furnishes a general condition, which resolves the conduct of every individual into a mere example. At the same time it satisfies in no less degree the need of differentiation, the tendency towards dissimilarity, the desire for change and contrast, on the one hand by a constant change of contents, which gives to the fashion of today an individual stamp as opposed to that of yesterday and tomorrow, on the other hand because fashions differ for different classes – the fashions of the upper stratum of society are never identical with those of the lower; in fact, they are abandoned by the former as soon as the latter prepares to appropriate them."

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Miriam Vollmer @miriamvollmer.bsky.social · 29d

Das ist echt kein Witz: Viele Frauen verzichten auf Kinder, weil die Aufwände der Elternschaft ungleich verteilt sind. Nach diesem Artikel müssten aber nicht die Männer mehr übernehmen, sondern die Frauen einsehen, dass sein höheres Gehalt doch auch was wert ist 😂 www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Warum sich der Babymangel nicht einfach lösen lässt

Die Lage der Welt oder fehlende Familienförderung erklären nicht umfassend, warum Geburtenraten niedrig sind. Entscheidend sind ökonomische Erwägungen von Mann und Frau – und wie sie miteinander verha...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 21

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is...

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · Jul 24

Team B

Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · Jul 14

Micoud. Beste unterschätzteste Legende.

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Simon Jäger @simonjaeger.bsky.social · Jul 11

Very excited that our paper (joint with Jarkko Harju and ‪@schoefer.bsky.social‬) on "Voice at Work" is published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. We study what happened when workers in Finnish firms got a right to worker voice on the corporate board. 👇

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 9

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Which Kind of Science Reform

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

elevanth.org

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Richard Nennstiel @nennstielr.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing?
We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023).
📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t.
📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher.
w/ @hudde.bsky.social
👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · Jul 8

I got an exciting box in the mail today! Looks like The Effect: Second Edition is live! I've updated the website as well, so you can check out the changes and the new Partial Identification chapter (+ a new mini-chapter on finding material in the book) at theeffectbook.net

Box of copies of The Effect: Second Edition

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Christian Meier zu Verl @zu-verl.bsky.social · May 8

after the review and soon to be published:
C. Meier zu Verl & C. Meyer (fc): Caressing, scuffling, playful slapping: Haptic #socialization and the #negotiation of corporeal boundaries in #family #intimacy. In: J. Streeck & J. Katila (eds.): #Touch and #Affect in #Interaction. OUP

#emca #sociology

This video extract shows an interaction between both parents and their son. The son is sad and the mother is trying to comfort him. She strokes his head, but the son refuses to be stroked.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · Mar 18

I’ve seen a few of David’s prints on the interwebs but I’m not familiar with him at all.

His YouTube channel is an absolute delight of process videos. If you need a diversionary rabbit hole 🐇 🕳️ today.. this is a very good one.

Poohsticks @poohsticks.bsky.social · Mar 18

You probably are already familiar with David Bull's work, but just in case ...
www.youtube.com/@seseragistu...

David Bull

Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull has created a number of video presentations of his work, including a number of videos showing the complete process of making his prints. A highlight of the ...

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · Mar 9

Lavender fields & lone tree… From one of our workshops in Provence.

Lavender fields shows beautiful lines leading to a small tree on top of the hill. A spot where I always take participants of my photo tour in Provence.

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Mar 6

🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper
“Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It”
just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org

💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🧵A thread
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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.bsky.social · Mar 3

🚨Now published in issue 🚨
What happens to female labor market supply when their male partner starts to earn payroll tax exempt income? Joint work w/ @andreashaupt.bsky.social, now open access at JMF: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
#sociology #gendersky #polisky #econsky

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Matthias Collischon 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @mcollischon.bsky.social · Mar 3

New paper with Kamila Cygan-Rehm (@tudresden.bsky.social) and Regina T. Riphahn (@fauwiso.bsky.social) out now in Socio-Economic Review (@sasemeeting.bsky.social)! We investigate how Minijobs (subisidized small jobs) affect motherhood penalties in the long run 1/13

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Andreas Haupt @andreashaupt.bsky.social · Feb 24

Lasst die Karlsruher Pyramide in Ruhe. Die ist schon belegt.

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Christy Quirk @cequirk.bsky.social · Feb 21

This is a lot

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Jaan Aru @jaanaru.bsky.social · Feb 11

From tiny aha's to big realizations: The bigger the conflict, the deeper the insight💡 🌩️

We propose a new theory of mental breakthroughs bridging insights from problem-solving, psychotherapy, psychedelics, and meditation.

out now in Cognition

Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ka-O2Hx2-...

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · Feb 9

Pro tip: when explaining the NIH cuts to friends and family, use "research infrastructure" rather than "indirect costs" or, godforbid, "overhead."

DOGE just slashed the budget for research infrastructure.

It's accurate and it drives home that the fight is over jobs and facilities, not "waste."

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