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9 people, no control group.
by tobr 7y ago
9 people, no control group.
- ralusek 7y agoBiomimicry. Start with what we know works: the 9 lives of a cat.
- asdfman123 7y agoPlus if they accidentally kill someone they still have 8 lives left.
- MartianSquirrel 7y agoThe results were a surprise even to the trial organizers — but researchers caution that the findings are preliminary because the trial was small and did not include a control arm.
- jjoonathan 7y ago"Enough for Nature! Next time, let's see if we can get away with 8!"
- red75prime 7y agoI would say that even one person experiment with documented deep reversal of age-related changes deserves publication and further research.
- jjoonathan 7y agoThe fact that it deserves further research is precisely why we shouldn't frontload the prestige incentives. That's how you get clickbait. We don't want clickbait, we want further research, but if we incentivize based on clickbait, clickbait is all we're going to get. Let's not.
- Pfhreak 7y ago9 men, no less.
- averros 7y agoWhen you do an exploratory experiment you want to have your group to be as homogeneous as possible. That's why there are lines of lab mice which are nearly clones of each other. Never ascribe to racism that which can be adequately explained by your own ignorance.