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Poor Instruments Lead to Poor Inferences: Comment on Roberts, Glymour, and Koenen (2013)

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  1. Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Drew H. Bailey

  2. Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    J. Michael Bailey

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Editor’s note: I asked Dr. J. Michael Bailey, one of the referees for the Roberts et al. (2013) article, to provide a commentary, to which he kindly agreed and penned with his son, Dr. Drew H. Bailey.

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Bailey, D.H., Bailey, J.M. Poor Instruments Lead to Poor Inferences: Comment on Roberts, Glymour, and Koenen (2013). Arch Sex Behav 42, 1649–1652 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0101-5

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