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No, it’s the absence of a control because there is no control group. You can’t study whether it’s a religiously affiliated behavior unless you have a non-religi
by Jolter 4y ago
No, it’s the absence of a control because there is no control group. You can’t study whether it’s a religiously affiliated behavior unless you have a non-religious fasting control group. It’s called a confounding variable.
- azan_ 4y agoIt's not confounding variable because this "variable" is actually constant in the entire group; the comparison is not fasting muslims vs non-fasting non-religious judges, but muslim judges with longer vs shorter fast or fasting at different hours
- Jolter 4y ago… but the study didn’t do this. Right?
- jiggywiggy 4y agoIt ads a lot more variables making it unsuitable, day time is not strongly associated with hunger. For instance its possible that the 5 prayers during the day have effect. And also the feeling of hunger is not constant, it might be stronger around normal eating times etc. There are just too many variables to conclude anything.