Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study...
by lm28469 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:20AM
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> And before someone asks "But what if it's .. instead?": Yes, they controlled for lots of things:
I'm no experiment designer but I fail to see how you can control for variables when the field of the experiment is "life". There are an unlimited number of variables, wouldn't you find tonnes of meaningless correlations ?
The set of variables is unlimited and the focus of the study is so precise that I have a real hard time to understand how meaningful these results can be.
> there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine.
Yeah no shit. Or like getting 8+ hours of sleep, or winning the genetic lottery, or working at a desk instead of on a construction zone, &c.
If it's all self reported it's kind of garbage to begin with, I know people who think they eat healthy diets, they don't
I'm no experiment designer but I fail to see how you can control for variables when the field of the experiment is "life". There are an unlimited number of variables, wouldn't you find tonnes of meaningless correlations ?
The set of variables is unlimited and the focus of the study is so precise that I have a real hard time to understand how meaningful these results can be.
> there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine.
Yeah no shit. Or like getting 8+ hours of sleep, or winning the genetic lottery, or working at a desk instead of on a construction zone, &c.
If it's all self reported it's kind of garbage to begin with, I know people who think they eat healthy diets, they don't