title: Editorial: Science unskewed - acknowledging and reducing 'risk of bias' in parenting research.
abstract: There is a growing awareness that 'risk of bias' distorts the process of generating and interpreting evidence and threatens the validity of psychological and psychiatric research at a number of different levels (Rutter & Pickles, ). Such threats are likely to be greatest in fields of study focused on socially/politically contentious issues where beliefs and values are strongly held - especially where there is a lack of methodological rigour.
authors.forename: Edmund
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sonuga-Barke
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D016487:Parenting