Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation
by michaelmrose on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:11PM
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That isn't what a meta analysis is. I'm not trying to be cruel but people know all sorts of things that aren't true based on insufficient evidence and weak correlation. I did this thing and got that result is extremely powerful for an individual but without controlling for other factors its hard to know if they are assigning credit to an irrelevant factor or one that was more specific to their situation and not generalizable.
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Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation
by objetovoador on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:40PM
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> That isn't what a meta analysis is. I'm not trying to be cruel[...]
That's why he didn't call it a meta-analysis but instead said "It’s more of a meta analysis in my mind of all the different studies and anecdotes I’ve osmoted over the years"
It'd be one thing if he said all those things as some sort of scientific fact, but he very clearly qualified his statements as hypothetical conclusions informed by surveying literature, reading developments and other things.
By saying "I'm not trying to be cruel" you seem to be aware that you're at least being pretty censorious. It seems misplaced to me.
Re:A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation
by michaelmrose on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:56PM
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You want me to call a spade a spade. Meta analysis is an actual term of art in the sciences. People sharing folk wisdom about diet is mostly malarkey of between zero and dubious value spoken in a confident tone it doesn't deserve.