Cherrypicking stats: bad form and not helpful

by Amy Romano, CNM (Originally published on Science and Sensibility for Lamaze International)Science & Sensibility contributor, Andrea Lythgoe, has a great post up at her own blog. In The Doula Numbers Game, Andrea shows that many of us may be overestimating – and overstating – the beneficial effects of continuous support from doulas. She argues and I agree that using outdated statistics that