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Do you change your diet based on weak science? If you tell someone you weakly believe a paper about diet science, do you think they might change their diet?
by greglindahl 7y ago
Do you change your diet based on weak science? If you tell someone you weakly believe a paper about diet science, do you think they might change their diet?
- waterhouse 7y agoIf, a priori, food A and food B seem equivalent to you, and you're currently eating food A, and then you get a weak report that food B is better, then it seems like an ok decision to switch to B. If your prior belief was that food A was a little bit better, then you might switch or not depending on the exact magnitudes of "weak" and "a little bit". If your prior belief was that food A was moderately or significantly better, then the weak report would not be sufficient evidence to switch (though it could be good reason to do more research).
- greglindahl 7y agoYou have a lot of faith in people! What I observe is that people change their diets all the time based on weak science.