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In reply to the discussion: What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later [View all]plimsoll
(1,671 posts)Trust the science also requires trustworthy scientists. Sadly not all of them are. We know there are gaps, and these numbers may be correct, but when you do this kind of study you should state your hypothesis upfront and work break it. If your hypothesis is that we should have sent the kids to school because it didn't help, you need to have some controls for glaringly obvious contributing factors:
Parental involvement
Student Involvement
Where are the controls for that? You can see hints that the problem is more complex by their inclusion of the economic factors in the results. They hint that parent involvement in the remote schooling had a big impact. Why isn't that controlled for?
Trust the science, but question it. Doing it when it confounds your belief is easy. Doing it when it confirms your belief was the missing step here as far as I can tell.