Some benefits of dichotomization in psychiatric and criminological research

By David P. Farrington, R. Loeber. 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Influence of Delinquen Peers on Delinquency (2005, methodology): “Following Farrington and Loeber (2000), the splitting decision was made at the 75th percentile, such that individuals scoring in the top 25th percentile were considered highly constrained, whereas Piquero et al. / INFLUENCE OF DELINQUENT PEERS 263 264 T A B L E 3 To bi t R eg re ss io n P re di ct…”
Prospective Association of Childhood Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Substance Use and Abuse/Dependence: A Meta-Analytic Review (2011, background): “Dichotomization does not significantly reduce statistical power and it yields meaningful effect sizes (i.e., odds ratios) (Farrington & Loeber, 2000).”
Green space as a buffer between stressful life events and health. (2010, methodology): “For ease of interpretation, dichotomous green space indicators (created via median split) were used in the analyses presented below (Farrington & Loeber, 2000).”
Social Support and Feelings of Hostility Among Released Inmates (2010, background): “Keeping with the notion that criminality can be effectively dichotomized (see DeLisi, 2005; Farrington & Loeber, 2000; Moffitt, 1993; Nagin & Paternoster, 2000) and recognizing that variation in self-control is restricted by the sample, the modification we employed to the self-control measure was…”
Best Practices for Using Median Splits, Artificial Categorization, and their Continuous Alternatives (2011, background): “In contrast to these admonitions against artificially categorizing variables, Farrington and Loeber (2000) highlighted some potential justifications in support of this practice.”
Trajectories of Prosocial Behavior and Physical Aggression in Middle Childhood: Links to Adolescent School Dropout and Physical Violence (2006, unknown): “As argued by Farrington and Loeber (2000), the use of OR results in a more understandable interpretation of the observed associations and, in some cases, a more realistic interpretation than the use of more conventional statistics allows for (e.”
Crime in Adult Offspring of Prisoners (2007, unknown): “…the presentation of results, dichotomization equates the sensitivity of measurement of all variables, does not necessarily cause a decrease in measured strength of association, and makes it possible to compare the predictive strengths of explanatory variables (Farrington & Loeber, 2000).”
Disentangling the relationship between delinquency and hyperactivity, low achievement, depression, and low socioeconomic status: Analysis of repeated longitudinal data (2013, background): “It was not possible to calculate within-individual correlations with delinquency for most of these variables, because they were either dichotomous or had very few values (see Farrington & Loeber, 2000) or were not measured comparably in all waves.”