> I am assuming the kids who stopped having the issues would have dropped out at a higher rate. Interesting. I suppose that could happen. I guess the opposite

> I am assuming the kids who stopped having the issues would have dropped out at a higher rate. Interesting. I suppose that could happen. I guess the opposite might also be true if they dropped out because they didn’t want to wait on therapy any longer and once they started therapy would no longer be allowed to participate in the control group. > When almost everyone drops out of a study you should start over or make sure you get the reasons why they dropped out so you can figure out if they stopped having the issues. Agreed. I’m not sure why the author didn’t lead with this point. This alone seems like a sufficient critique, along with the small sample size.