Talk:Stanley Coren

message: In the version viewed on 9/12/13, the page notes that Coren's work on handedness and mortality has played out in the literature and cites a general psychology textbook as evidence. Unfortunately, this is not how the academic dispute played out, and on that matter the general textbook was simply incorrect in claiming that Coren and Halpern's hypothesis was vindicated. 
In fact, the majority of the academic literature presses against Coren and Halpern's hypothesis and has supported the claim that Coren and Halpern's methodology (effectively a case-control design) was confounded by secular trends in the population - specifically changes in the reported prevalence of left-handedness that increased during a certain period among younger persons. This biased a sampling of death records as left-handed persons were more represented among the younger-deceased. Effectively, Coren and Halpern confused the average age of death as evidence for a differential mortality rate. Studies which have looked specifically at death rates for cohorts, a design that is not biased by these issues, often failed to find a mortality effect associated with handedness. This was evident even when Coren and Halpern published in the New England Journal of Medicine and other authors quickly disputed the conclusions, some even citing large cohort studies (specifically, NHANES data and the Framingham study) which found no effect at all. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199110033251412 See also a large study of Swedish conscripts here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8038249 and the Iowa Women's Health Study here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8059772
Furthermore, it's been demonstrated that these suspected differences in underlying prevalence of left handedness can produce effects as large as those observed by Coren and Halpern. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.83.2.265
I suggest that the claim of Coren's theory playing out favorably and gaining acceptance be removed, given that the literature can most reasonably be summarized as "cohort studies do not show a strong effect of handedness on mortality rate". 128.163.7.150 (talk) 22:43, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
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message: Wow, this needed extension - glad to do it. I still remember Dr. Coren from first-year psychology - great guy, and well worth being recognized for his work. Tony Fox (speak) 03:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: As stated here; on the stanleycoren.com website, stanleycoren.com is a not owned or run by Stanley Coren.  It used to be, but the name was allowed to expire and then bought by an entirely unconnected group of people.   His personal website is www.stanleycoren.online.  --Escape Orbit (Talk) 17:06, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
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