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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by chiefalchemist on Thursday June 02, 2022 @07:48PM (#31602133)
You make good and valid points, but it's also:

"..self-reported..."

which always raises questions.

Also, was this an actual study. Or simply a statistical pattern detected in UK Biobank members?

Note: Not trolling, just looking for full context.

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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by thelamest on Thursday June 02, 2022 @08:18PM (#31602409)
It’s a pattern detected in the UK Biobank dataset. I assume by a study you mean an experiment – it wasn’t one. The dataset is longitudinal, which helps a little, but there’s still a big jump from associations to causal links.
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Re:Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk, new study... by chiefalchemist on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:18AM (#31606444)
Right. So this is simply beating up some dataset until a news-worthy pattern appears. Add in self-reported and this is more wishful-thinking than it is science.
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