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Did they account for the gender of the researchers in this study?

• uw_rob 8y ago
  Yes. Some key quotes about this: > The female rats did not show evidence of a link between the radiation and such tumors. > Experts say it is not unusual for cancer patterns to vary between sexes in both people and animals, including the study’s mice and rats.
  • byproxy 8y ago
    Operative word being "researchers", here. Apparently the gender of researchers conducting experiments on rats has shown to change outcomes : https://www.nature.com/news/male-researchers-stress-out-rodents-1.15106 https://www.nature.com/news/male-researchers-stress-out-rode...
  • canhascodez 8y ago
    You misread, I think. They were referring to cases where the gender of the researcher has inadvertently skewed results: [0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/10/577046624/a-scientists-gender-can-skew-research-results https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/10/5770466...