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You get some numbers, they look good - fine, but at best it’s grounds for a proper study, at worst wildly misleading. You can easily fool yourself with statistics, and other people too.

For a good read about studies with solid statistics and bogus results, see [0].

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-o...




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