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Another Mysterious Mental Improvement

• JoeAltmaier 16y ago
  Witchcraft is drawing large conclusions from statistically insignificant data.
  • beagle3 16y ago
    Yep, but Roberts is doing statistics, not witchcraft. Even if this is the only post of his you had ever read, I don't see how you would claim "statistically insignificant". Seth Roberts understands research on one hand and statistics on the other, better than about 95% of people who publish results.
    • JoeAltmaier 16y ago
      Hm. He's only one guy. To conclude that mercury fillings are correlated to improved mental capacity based on one sample is not statistics.
• puredemo 16y ago
  Couldn't the change have resulted from simply living in a different, more puzzling culture?