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It is common sense to check your control group measurements against the literature and see where they stand. I would also expect to mention the results of that
by nonbel 9y ago
It is common sense to check your control group measurements against the literature and see where they stand. I would also expect to mention the results of that search in the paper.
Looking closer at the paper I see they also had some spleen sizes from a European cohort. They do not seem to tell us what those volumes were, instead only reporting p-values. Can anyone find it?
- aje403 9y agohttp://www.humanfunctionalgenomics.org/site/?page_id=82 http://www.humanfunctionalgenomics.org/site/?page_id=82 is what they used Those don't appear to be spleen sizes, though. It looks like they're just saying that they did a regression on some data linking "SNP"s to thyroid hormone levels. Then, they did a different but similar regression on data from the Bajau. I don't know what the relation of the SNPs are to spleen size but don't see anything noted in that area of the paper. IANA social scientist, but it looks quite goofy. They also note that they could not verify any relationship between spleen and thyroid sizes anyway.
- nonbel 9y agoI think they did look at "other" spleen sizes and just chose not to mention it. This really just looks like another case of "reject null hypothesis -> conclude whatever we want".