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The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities: comment

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The recent claim made in this journal that nuclear bomb tests and the Chernobyl disaster caused distortions in the secondary sex ratio is shown to be a likely artifact of data mining, misused statistics, and misreading of the evidence. In particular, the concept of statistical “significance” and its limitations do not seem to be fully understood, and important confounding factors have not been accounted for.

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  1. Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Walter Krämer

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Responsible editor: Philippe Garrigues

I am grateful to an anonymous referee for helpful suggestions and comments.

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Krämer, W. The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities: comment. Environ Sci Pollut Res 19, 1332–1334 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-011-0644-8

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