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If you want to see truly egregious uses of statistics, take a look at any paper on diet or nutrition. Be prepared to be angry. At this point, if someone publis
by Aloisius 13y ago
If you want to see truly egregious uses of statistics, take a look at any paper on diet or nutrition. Be prepared to be angry.
At this point, if someone published a study stating that we needed to eat not to die, I'd be skeptical of it.
- capnrefsmmat 13y agoYou might enjoy this: Schoenfeld, J. D., & Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2013). Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 97(1), 127–134. doi:10.3945/ajcn.112.047142 They did a review of cookbook ingredients and found that most of them had studies showing they increased your risk of cancer, while also having studies showing they decrease your risk of cancer. I think bacon was a notable exception -- everyone agreed that it increases your cancer risk.