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These are the problems that arise when everyone and their moms start talking about scientific studies this way. We don't have enough information. We don't know
by sfn42 3y ago
These are the problems that arise when everyone and their moms start talking about scientific studies this way.
We don't have enough information. We don't know how they collected their data, we don't know how they analyzed it, even if we did most of us don't know enough to judge those methods etc.
Most "science" is honestly worthless crap done by some random person mainly because they want a PhD or are trying to pad their publication count. They look for some arbitrary thing to test, half-assedly design a study, collect as little data as they can get away with, do a little p-hacking and such to make sure the results are significant (otherwise the time was wasted) then they publish.