Logan Hanks

Writing

Essays and newsletter on research, science communication, and grad-school life.

  1. essay

    Why Reviewers Reward Design, Not Just Data

    Reviewers accept manuscripts they can trust, and trust comes from a clearly specified causal question, a defensible design, and honest sensitivity analyses—not from a bigger dataset or a flashier model.

    study-designcausal-inferenceDAGsconfoundingpeer-reviewsensitivity-analysispopulation-science
  2. essay

    When an Odds Ratio Lies: Reading Effect Estimates Honestly

    The odds ratio is the workhorse of logistic regression, but it routinely overstates how much an exposure matters when the outcome is common. Here is how to read it honestly.

    epidemiologybiostatisticsodds-ratiologistic-regressioncausal-inferencemethods