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If anyone here hasn't read the comments on this as well, go read Eliezer Yudkowsky's comment on meta-analysis: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control
by yummyfajitas 13y ago
If anyone here hasn't read the comments on this as well, go read Eliezer Yudkowsky's comment on meta-analysis:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/#comment-66077 http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
- SoftwareMaven 13y agoI've spent a lot of time in the past year studying nutrition as I've tried to optimize my health. I don't believe there is a field that gets science more wrong and, as a result, whose meta-analyses are, to put it in Yudkowsky's words, more bullshit. Unfortunately, I don't think there is another field whose bullshit gets more media play, either (except maybe politicians, but that's a tautology).