Mischievous Odds Ratios

Explorer Reverse concreteness effects are not a typical feature of semantic dementia

Syn Judge = Synonym judgement; Desc-Noun = Description-noun matching; Desc-Verb =Description-verb matching; Verb Sim = Verb Similarity Test; S&McG; = Shallice and McGilltest; MMT-pic = Mischievous Monkey Test with pictures; MMT-word = MischievousMonkey Test with words. Bars indicate standard error of mean, adjusted to reflect thebetween-condition variance used in within-subject d...

Mischievous responding in Internet Gaming Disorder research

The most recent update to the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) included Internet Gaming Disorder as a new potential psychiatric condition that merited further scientific study. The present research was conducted in response to the APA Substance-Related Disorders Working Group's research call to estimate the extent to which mi...

Misinterpreting Odds Ratio in the Articles Published in Korean Journal of Family Medicine

BACKGROUND In reporting results of case-control studies, odds ratios are useful methods of reporting findings. However, odds ratios are often misinterpreted in the literature and by general readers. METHODS We searched all original articles which were published in the Korean Journal of Family Medicine from 1980 to May 2011 and identified those that report "odds ratios." Misinterpretation of o...

The relative merits of risk ratios and odds ratios.

When a study outcome is rare in all strata used for an analysis, the odds ratio estimate of causal effects will approximate the risk ratio; therefore, odds ratios from most case-control studies can be interpreted as risk ratios. However, if a study outcome is common, the odds ratio will be further from 1 than the risk ratio. There is debate regarding the merits of risk ratios compared with odds...

Inaccurate Estimation of Disparities Due to Mischievous Responders: Several Suggestions to Assess Conclusions