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“the study tracked participants’ health outcomes over periods ranging from 13 to more than 30 years, and participants were queried about their diet only once, a
by faeyanpiraat 5y ago
“the study tracked participants’ health outcomes over periods ranging from 13 to more than 30 years, and participants were queried about their diet only once, at the beginning of the study. Can we assume that the participants gave a reliable depiction of their diet at the outset, and then that they maintained that same diet for the years — in many cases, decades — that followed?”
That seems like an awful way to design an experiment.
- rich_sasha 5y agoI was going to say something defensive about the science, like it’s really difficult to do a double-blind large randomised diet study over decades, but then I read this bit. It is beyond bad science. If someone makes an error in statistics, well, happens, we can’t all be experts. But this is almost taking the mick.