Fish Oil may prevent severe mental illness

Re:Fish Oil may prevent severe mental illness by vomjom on Monday February 01, 2010 @09:33PM (#1094110)

If you have a statistics background, it's pretty easy to tell that it's significant given the numbers (2 of 41 in the fish oil group and 11 of 40 in the placebo).

The exact p-value is in the paper (0.007), or very significant. It's often difficult to get those kind of p-values in real world settings:

http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/67/2/146?l...

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Re:Fish Oil may prevent severe mental illness by Frazzydee on Monday February 01, 2010 @10:34PM (#1094214)

Thank you for that. I don't have a statistics background, so I was a bit unsure of how seriously I should take the findings given that it was described as "preliminary."

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Re:Fish Oil may prevent severe mental illness by rms on Monday February 01, 2010 @09:39PM (#1094117)

Wow. That's almost unbelievably significant for a study of a damn nutritional supplement. If this is replicable, let's hope this leads to new, more effective treatments for mental illness.

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