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Sorry, I may be missing something; I don't understand how this addresses the correlation vs. causality problem. If they're tracking two measurements, and obser
by jtheory 13y ago
Sorry, I may be missing something; I don't understand how this addresses the correlation vs. causality problem.
If they're tracking two measurements, and observing a correlation, "people who get obese stop eating full fat yoghurt" needs to be ruled out of the effect, somehow.
- maxerickson 13y agoFew of the subjects changed their diets during the 12 years of the study. But why don't you just go find an explicit flaw in their methodology, rather than assuming there must be an obvious one there?
- jtheory 13y agoEh, I was surprised that the article didn't make any mention of this (any effort countering what seemed to me to be an obvious explanation), so I made a brief comment about it. I don't care enough to track down and comb through the study. From experience, I tend to suspect the article is at fault, not the study, though the error of "spinning a study to make it appear to prove something it didn't" is unfortunately rather more common than something like "didn't mention anything about how the study showed causation".