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The confidence intervals overlap by quite a bit. The difference is not statistically significant. If this were a clinical drug trial, the drug would not get app
by ProjectArcturis 5y ago
The confidence intervals overlap by quite a bit. The difference is not statistically significant. If this were a clinical drug trial, the drug would not get approved.
>The study seems to have ignored other measures, such as inflammation markers.
They also ran a panel of metabolic markers, which the abstract says were in line with the overall weight loss results.
- foldr 5y agoThis seems to be a (very typical) misuse of NHST. All we want to know in this case is which of the following statements is the more probable: (1) Intermittent fasting has benefits. (2) Intermittent fasting does not have benefits. Instead, what we're being told is that we can't reject (2) with a high degree of confidence. When you look at the sizes of the groups in the study, this is pretty obviously going to be the case. With so few participants there'd have to be an enormous difference between groups in order to be sure that (2) is false. They need hardly have bothered doing the study at all.