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I am switching gears from gender and access to careers (and the role of education) to different ways to model the impact of risk in the context of examining biological insult in child development. To whit...
A fundamental challenge in examining the impact of any biological insult in child development is the reality that such situations do not occur in a vacuum. While physical damage can and does occur outside the context of environmental risk, it has been confirmed time after time that infants face greater likelihood of many different conditions, including iron deficiency anemia, in environmental circumstances that present other risk factors. Cumulative risk models equate all risk factors to child development and simply count the number present in a child's environment. Multiple risk models use multivariate analysis to maintain the unique impact of each risk factor, but allow the covariance between risks to eliminate all but the risks most correlated to the outcome to remain in the model. Neither model undertakes to examine the nature of interconnected risk factors, even at the most elementary level of examining mediation between different risks. This study examined the ways in which multiple risks may intersect and impact each other, as well as the biological risk factor of iron deficiency anemia, to affect long-term cognitive development.
That is likely going to be the first paragraph in the article I'm writing for the journal Child Development. I am in the typical-for-me position of knowing what the results are but struggling with framing the results in a context that clearly makes sense of why I did the work. Other than "Because it is cool to know..."
A fundamental challenge in examining the impact of any biological insult in child development is the reality that such situations do not occur in a vacuum. While physical damage can and does occur outside the context of environmental risk, it has been confirmed time after time that infants face greater likelihood of many different conditions, including iron deficiency anemia, in environmental circumstances that present other risk factors. Cumulative risk models equate all risk factors to child development and simply count the number present in a child's environment. Multiple risk models use multivariate analysis to maintain the unique impact of each risk factor, but allow the covariance between risks to eliminate all but the risks most correlated to the outcome to remain in the model. Neither model undertakes to examine the nature of interconnected risk factors, even at the most elementary level of examining mediation between different risks. This study examined the ways in which multiple risks may intersect and impact each other, as well as the biological risk factor of iron deficiency anemia, to affect long-term cognitive development.
That is likely going to be the first paragraph in the article I'm writing for the journal Child Development. I am in the typical-for-me position of knowing what the results are but struggling with framing the results in a context that clearly makes sense of why I did the work. Other than "Because it is cool to know..."