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I would like to say that a certain result is not robust after controlling for certain variables, like age or education.

That is, I obtained a certain result, but after I control for certain variables, the result vanishes.

Do I say:

the result is not robust to controls for age, education, ...

or

the result is not robust to controlling for age, education, ...

?

On Google I find 19,200 results for "not robust to controlling", and 14,600 results for "not robust to controls".

So it looks like both ways are possible?

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  • I’d probably say “… not robust after controlling for … “
    – Jim
    Commented Nov 9, 2021 at 12:04
  • Or "... not robust after taking into account ..." Commented Nov 9, 2021 at 14:15
  • Could you not just say that the result "correlates directly with age/education/etc."
    – JeffUK
    Commented Nov 9, 2021 at 14:29
  • @JeffUK no that's kind of obvious. In empirical data you never have exactly 0 correlation Commented Nov 9, 2021 at 15:03

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