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Article concludes weaker statement as well: "It turns out that in our dataset, there is no statistically significant difference between male microbiomes and fe
by TrainedMonkey 12y ago
Article concludes weaker statement as well:
"It turns out that in our dataset, there is no statistically significant difference between male microbiomes and female microbiomes. And, given a random sample, we would not be able to determine if it came from a man or a woman."
- Panoramix 12y agoI found that completely unsurprising
- stcredzero 12y agoIt's about as unsurprising as the MythBusters finding that both men and women fart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mNU6MFQP1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mNU6MFQP1k
- gojomo 12y agoI suspect they could do better than random chance in guessing the gender of the sample source. Their tables show pretty big differences in the categories Actinobacteria (73% more in men) and Verrucomicrobia (88% more in women). Maybe their sample is so small even these very different averages are just attributable to random chance, but it seems they've made a conscious choice not to reveal the size of their database.