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Their confidence intervals include 0 or nearly-0, their P-values are at or near the .05 cutoff, and they tested a bunch of different things and got results on a

• mikeyouse 12y ago
  > Their confidence intervals include 0 or nearly-0, their P-values are at or near the .05 cutoff They ran two different models and found across all cohorts (correcting for age, race, BMI, marital status, smoking, history, physical activity levels, and education) that those who regularly consumed sugar-sweetened soda had statistically shorter telomeres -- and that this affect is correlated with the amount of consumption. > Because of the model-based estimate in this sample of the age-associated rate of telomere shortening of 13.6 base pairs per year, this was equivalent to 1.9 additional years of aging for an 8-ounce serving of sugar-sweetened sodas. For a daily consumption of the current standard 20-ounce serving size for sugar-sweetened sodas, this corresponds to 4.6 additional years of aging. This is good science, and treating it as less than that to set up a joke is pointless.
  • Scientist007 12y ago
    The "joke" points out an important flaw.
    • mikeyouse 12y ago
      It really doesn't though. Something tells me green-account "Scientist007", that you might not actually be a scientist.
      • lotsofmangos 12y ago
        No, you have got it all wrong. They must surely be a secret-agent-scientist. That's why nobody understand them. They are using secret-science learned at spy-school that nobody else knows about.
        • dang 12y ago
          Please avoid posting comments that lower the signal-noise ratio in HN threads.