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I'm not knowledgeable about statistics and studies like this in general; do you mean this is a "green jelly beans cause acne" [1] situation, where you test for
by FranchuFranchu 5y ago
I'm not knowledgeable about statistics and studies like this in general; do you mean this is a "green jelly beans cause acne" [1] situation, where you test for many hypotheses and one of them turns out to be significant?
[1]: https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/
- arisAlexis 5y agoExactly, if you test many many things against each other you will always find correlations between them by chance. That's why you always need to start with a "serious" hypothesis.