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[–]weavilsatemyface[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The American Journal of Psychiatry has issued a major correction to a recent study. The Bränström study reanalysis demonstrated that neither “gender-affirming hormone treatment” nor “gender-affirming surgery” reduced the need of transgender-identifying people for mental health services.

[–]bife_de_lomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's quite an old correction, coming from 2020, but it is nonetheless a fascinating insight into the poor level of peer review the original study was subject to. The fact that that findings are completely nullified is amazing.

The think-tank site you link to also has a really good breakdown about the broader "crisis of reproducibility" that plagues social sciences, psychology and even medicine. It allows nonsense like the original paper to gain importance even though the same methodology would yield different results in another study (or if like this study they retroactively analyse something without including it in their original plan then who knows!)