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Had to look up where this bit from the abstract... > Body temperature was slightly higher on the high protein diet (p 0.08 after the dinner meal). ...was d
by peatmoss 12y ago
Had to look up where this bit from the abstract...
> Body temperature was slightly higher on the high protein diet (p 0.08 after the dinner meal).
...was discussed in the article:
> At 2.5 hours after the dinner meal, the change in body temperature for the HP diet was nearly 40% higher than that for the HC diet (0.8 and 0.5 °F respectively, p = 0.08).
So, for n=10, they observed a 0.3 degree F difference in the rise in body temperature with a p value of 0.08? Maybe there is something about about bio-sadistics I am failing to grok, but this seems like a pretty tiny effect size, with a relaxed standard of statistical significance, measured in an awfully small sample.
- sixbrx 12y agoOn the contrary , to me it's good to see a relaxed p-value cutoff being reported, as opposed to self censorship for being barely on the wrong side of the completely arbitrary 5% cutoff. Occuring in the 8% tail is still unlikely to occur by chance, enough to call for replication with a bigger sample.