The Illusion of Statistical Control

By Kevin D. Carlson, Jinpei Wu. 2012

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Abusive Supervision: A Meta-Analysis and Empirical Review (2017, background): “Although researchers should carefully choose control variables that are theoretically relevant to their conceptual and operational study designs (Carlson & Wu, 2012) and describe why they include particular control variables (Becker, 2005), the weighted mean correlations we report can inform…”
Uneasy Lies the Head that Bears the Trust: The Effects of Feeling Trusted on Emotional Exhaustion (2014, result): “Following recent admonitions, we did not include any of these control variables in our final model because they did not alter the results of our hypothesis testing (Becker, 2005; Carlson & Wu, 2012).”
Social Exchange Implications of Own and CoWorkers' Experiences of Supervisory Abuse (2014, methodology): “Following the recommendation of Carlson and Wu (2012), we therefore did not include them in our final analyses as reported below.”
The Rise of Socially Responsible Investment Funds: The Paradoxical Role of the Financial Logic (2019, background): “Another potential concern arises from the possibility that the result is a mere statistical artifact (Becker, 2005; Carlson and Wu, 2011; Spector and Brannick, 2011) driven by the choice of control variables.”
Service Employee Responses to Angry Customer Complaints (2017, background): “Therefore, we report in the remainder of this analysis the findings without controls to avoid issues related to reduced statistical power and potential spurious suppression that might be introduced by the controls (cf. Carlson and Wu 2012; Spector and Brannick 2011).”
Pleasant Ambient Scents: A Meta-Analysis of Customer Responses and Situational Contingencies (2020, background): “However, controlling for other effects may also lead to larger effect sizes, as variance from extraneous factors is partialled out (Carlson and Wu 2012).”
Examining the “I” in Team: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Influence of Team Narcissism Composition on Team Outcomes in the NBA (2020, methodology): “Control Variables We followed the recommendations outlined by Carlson and Wu (2012) in identifying covariates to statistically control in our analyses.”
The role of climate: implications for service employee engagement and customer service performance (2017, background): “…controlled for service employee- and hospital-level variables with theoretical and statistical relevance in an attempt to minimize bias for omitted variables and to account for factors that explained significant variance in job engagement and customer service performance (see Carlson and Wu 2012).”