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Re:Daily multivitamin improves memory in older adults: meta-... by throwaway44773 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:25PM (#39080453)
Memory seems to be a weird thing to study in isolation from such a study. Is this an example of p-hacking where 100 different variables were tested and 1 had to come out as statistically significant but pure luck?

Not to mention how problematic it is that the variable tested is either cocoa or a multivitamin which can contain hundreds of different chemicals.

Re:Daily multivitamin improves memory in older adults: meta-... by therealcamino on Sunday January 21, 2024 @04:36PM (#39083322)
They did not study memory in isolation. All the details are available at the link to the journal article. It doesn't seen fair to accuse them of p-hacking without first understanding what was studied.