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Re:Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19 by scarmig on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:28AM (#29022700)
Another issue is that they were testing multiple drugs, none of which had a statistically significant effect. Classic p hacking.

https://xkcd.com/882/

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Re:Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early Covid-19 by scotty79 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @05:24AM (#29024019)
Assesing 7 promising substances to determine which one if any does anything and getting 30% effect on one and no effect on the rest is p-hacking?

Is science allowed to research only one substance for specific purpose at any time to sufficiently avoid p-hacking for you?

Also if I read correctly they got >0.60 not >0.05

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