Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurrent miscarriage

Re:Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurren... by aristophenes on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:02PM (#19556912)

While this is a very interesting finding, I suspect p-hacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging

Imagine the awkwardness when someone tries to get funding to confirm.

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Re:Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurren... by whoisjuan on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:10PM (#19556976)

Data dredging is usually establishing a causation or pattern of two loosely correlated variables with no clear undesrstanding of why one have effects on the other. (correlation != causation).

In this particular case they seem to have a clear hypothesis on why there could be a strong link between one and the other: > "Oral sex might induce maternal tolerance towards paternal antigens of the fetus".

Anyway. This doesn't mean that this is a strong study. Just pointing out that at least they seem to have a theory on why oral sex can protect against miscarriages.

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Re:Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurren... by aristophenes on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:15PM (#19557016)

We don't know how many different things did they ask for on the survey? Maybe they had 100 different things that they were just spitballing might have some possible effect.

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Re:Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurren... by bitadder on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:04PM (#19556928)

My friend and I were talking about the same thing.

"association became weaker" with a p=.21

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Re:Oral sex is associated with reduced incidence of recurren... by vbuwivbiu on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:04PM (#19556926)

doesn't matter - now that this has been reported it is fact

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