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Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant



 
 
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Old June 22nd, 2012, 08:58 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
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Default Being Statistically Significant Is Nothing Like Being Pregnant



http://www.westonaprice.org/blogs/cm...eing-pregnant/

"If we want to show that a drug reduces the risk of disease, on the
other hand, we might want something much stricter, like P0.01 or
P0.001, because we know from experience that drugs are often more
harmful than they first appear in clinical trials, and newer drugs are
usually more expensive than old ones, so we don’t want to adopt an
expensive and potentially dangerous drug on flimsy evidence for its
efficacy. On the other hand, for the very same reason we might take a
more liberal approach when assessing the potential harm of something
new. If a study shows that P = 0.06 that vegetable oils cause cancer,
we should be much more cautious about swigging the soybean oil."

Tru dat.

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about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything" - Richard Feynman
 




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