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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by tinus_hn on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:13PM (#28459206)
> Although there were also fewer COVID-19 cases in villages with cloth masks as compared to control villages, the difference was not statistically significant.

This means you can’t draw conclusions from this finding apart from that any difference there actually is is really small.

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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by mike00632 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:52PM (#28460666)
You can't draw conclusions from that study... yet that is exactly what you did in declaring masks to be ineffective.
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Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o... by tinus_hn on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:38PM (#28463384)
What are you referring to? The top comment is not mine and also does not make that declaration, it correctly states that the difference is statistically insignificant.
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