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Until there's a controlled, replicable method, all these studies, approaches, genius ideas are just blah-blah-blah exercises in pretty correlations.
by mgenzel 17y ago
Until there's a controlled, replicable method, all these studies, approaches, genius ideas are just blah-blah-blah exercises in pretty correlations.
- quizbiz 17y agoLive a healthy lifestyle, consume less, push your body to function efficiently and you will be more likely to live longer. You might still die in a car accident but it makes sense that changes in day to day behavior affect how your cells regenerate.
- jshen 17y agoBy your reasoning, all this stuff about climate change is just blah blah blah. Correlations seen numerous times in independent efforts are meaningful. I'm also not sure what you mean by "controlled". For example, in the china study the group that ate more meat was compared to a similar group in the same country with the same lifestyle. Isn't this the definition of a control group?
- kingkongrevenge 17y ago> I'm also not sure what you mean by "controlled". Obviously not. You just offered the definition of uncontrolled. > climate change is just blah Well he makes a pretty good point that data dredging for correlations is bad science. But the real reason climate change is "blah" is that the world isn't actually warming. Clearly shown for over ten years now by satellite and ground station data. There was only warming after a long cooling trend that lasted into the 70s. http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/2009/06/how-the-us-temperature-record-is-adjusted/ http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/2009/06/how-the-us-temperat...
- jshen 17y agoplease explain what you mean by "controlled" then.