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No. The link is to an abstract of a study, and the abstract claims that it was a randomized trial. A reasonable person may, of course, decide to trust the auth
by torstenvl 3y ago
No. The link is to an abstract of a study, and the abstract claims that it was a randomized trial.
A reasonable person may, of course, decide to trust the authors and assume they executed the randomization correctly. However, without being able to read the methodology of the study (which is paywalled), it is just that: an assumption.
- lolinder 3y agoThis is a reasonable nitpick, but I'm responding to someone who said "correlation does not imply causation", which pretty clearly communicates that they didn't even read the abstract. Note that I said it can theoretically contribute to causation—I'm not saying the study came to the correct conclusion, just that people should actually follow the link rather than critiquing the study based on the title alone.