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There’s a 6 oz. standard coffee cup in a “that’s our custom” sense. It’s what’s referenced on many ground coffee bags. Also, https://cooking.stackexchange.com/q
by AuthorizedCust 6y ago
There’s a 6 oz. standard coffee cup in a “that’s our custom” sense. It’s what’s referenced on many ground coffee bags. Also, https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/25041/is-a-cup-on-a-coffee-maker-always-6-oz-is-this-a-standard-in-the-us https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/25041/is-a-cup-o....
- dcolkitt 6y agoYeah, but none of the academic research on coffee will qualify this to their survey respondents. They just ask how many cups per day, then write it down. Whereas most of the research on alcohol consumption will go in detail about drink size and strength then translate to standard units.
- AuthorizedCust 6y agoI agree, which is why I have concerns about this research.
- Balgair 6y agoWhy though? Yes, you are not controlling for the amount of coffee consumed. But that should cancel out in a population based study. The null hypothesis should be that humans drink coffee in a gaussian distributed way (not like with alcohol where the consumption is exponentially distributed). If you then randomly sample from that coffee drinker population (again, gaussian distributed), you can then control for variations in the coffee consumption by comparing the averages of coffee drinkers to non-drinkers. But, yes, this does center around the hypothesis that coffee consumption is normally distributed. To confirm that I'd assume that there has been some research done on coffee consumption. Research that I have not done, to be clear. But I with no priors, I'd assume a normal distribution, because, well, darn near everything in bio is normally distributed.