Year: 2017
Type: letter
Abstract: Naimi’s letter,1 which criticizes an article we have written about causal inference in epidemiology,2 repeats many of the arguments and errors in the response to our article by Daniel et al.,3 involving mischaracterization of our critique of uncritical use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) and misunderstandings of what a critical analysis of racial/ethnic health inequities entails. Rather than repeat ourselves to correct these errors, we refer readers to our response4 to the Daniel et al. article and the other commentaries, as well as to our original article.2 The problematic treatment of race/ethnicity in epidemiologic research–including but not limited to research premised on a potential outcomes approach–has long been a mutual concern of ours2,5 and this concern is reinforced, not rebutted, by the problematic approaches and assertions of both the Daniel et al. article3 and Naimi’s letter.1
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx087
Authors: Nancy Krieger, George Davey Smith
Language: French
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2617528742