April 9, 2018

Briefly

In a 2003 study, 19 percent of teens who claimed to be adopted actually weren’t, according to follow-up interviews with their parents. When you excluded these kids (who also gave extreme responses on other items), the study no longer found a significant difference between adopted children and those who weren’t on behaviors like drug use, drinking and skipping school

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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    Steve Curtis

    For the authors of the 2003 study on teenagers, ( they covered more than just adoption) the results were so compromised the paper was retracted.
    But a google search before would have told them lots of papers about teenagers lying, some researchers whole field is on deception in children.

    7 years ago