Reposted by Magnus Karlsson-Good
"Not always towards the null: reconsidering the direction of overadjustment bias" - read our new paper in the @intjepidemiol.bsky.social led by Frerik Smit!
Overadjustment for a mediator is often thought to 'bias towards the null', but the bias can be in any direction - as the paper explains!
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Not always towards the null: reconsidering the direction of overadjustment bias
Abstract. Overadjustment bias occurs when adjusting for a variable increases rather than decreases bias. It commonly arises in studies estimating the total