Episode 22: The Basics of Bias in Research

Episode Summary

This is the bias 101 episode for birth professionals who read research and want to read it better. We walk through the most common forms of bias that show up in birth and parenting studies, where they tend to hide, and how to guard against them in your own practice.

We also fold in Hillary’s birth story, which is worth the listen on its own, and Robin shares the tech tools she leans on for tracking key dates in a doula or educator practice. Practical and personal in the same episode.

Useful for anyone who teaches evidence-based content, makes clinical or business decisions from research summaries, or just wants to stop nodding along to studies that do not actually say what their headlines say.

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Common forms of bias in research

Hillary Melchiors’ birth story

Practice management tools for tracking key dates