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Re:Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life by contravariant on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:01PM (#37081729)
I take it a relative risk of 1 is a null result?

If so a confidence interval of 1.02 to 2.2 after arbitrarily excluding some data is not exactly ground breaking.

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Re:Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life by nerdponx on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:20PM (#37081938)
It's suggestive of p-hacking. "Look, the bottom of the interval is just above 1! Finally I can publish this."
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