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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958567 and marked it off-topic.
by sctb 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958567 and marked it off-topic.
- ouid 10y agoThis wasn't off-topic. I was pointing out that the methodology was very different from the effect that they claimed. The authors of the study chained correlations together and asserted a causal effect. This is sloppy science.