46: Statistical literacy (with Andy Field)
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Are Paternal and Maternal Anxiety Linked to Child Anger?
There's a hypothesis in the kind of child anxiety literature that someone has around anxious fathers contributing more to children's anxiety than anxious mothers. I think they have primarily evolutionary arguments about this and lots of assumptions about male child-carrying roles versus female child- carrying roles, which are perhaps a little stereotyped. So using a Bayesian approach allowed me to essentially work out what the plausible values were for the parameter that represented paternal anxiety or, sorry, paternal anxiety on child anxiety. And also estimate the plausible values of the influence of maternal anxiety on child Anxiety by looking at whether those two parameters overlapped.
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