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This simple suggestions "link --> associated" will greatly help clear the fog around supplementation and nutritional studies. The other word that I would love
by haltingproblem 6y ago
This simple suggestions "link --> associated" will greatly help clear the fog around supplementation and nutritional studies.
The other word that I would love to see is intervention study. Ultimately, intervention in a clinical context setup as a RCT (e.g. use of Vitamin D for Covid patients) is the best judge of clinical outcomes.
- zerocrates 6y agoBut that's already what "link" means. If you make everyone use "associated" in this context it will just acquire the same colloquial connotation as "link" and you've gotten nowhere.
- gregwebs 6y agoI think you are right and we need to use the actual term "correlated". "linked" has a stronger connotation then "associated" for me, and some dictionary definitions show this stronger connotation as well.
- haltingproblem 6y agoAssociational study also sometimes called observational studies are a term of art in the scientific literature. This is not semantic hair-splitting but calling what the scientists call it. Link can mean multiple things but associated or even better "associational study" clarifies things immensely.