’A huge range of science projects are done with multiple regression analysis. The results are often somewhere between meaningless and quite damaging’, Michigan University professor of psychology Richard Nisbett said in 2016 during a conversation on Egde [1], and added that, should his crusade succeed, ’there’ll be a kind of upfront warning in New York Times articles: These data are based on multiple regression analysis. This would be a sign that you probably shouldn’t read the article because you’re quite likely to get non-information or misinformation’.
Nisbett is so damn right!