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Re:Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating health... by zevyoura on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:28AM (#5735892)
I'm a bit confused by your statement; are you saying you trust your own experience (sample size: 1) over any published science? That seems fundamentally flawed.
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Re:Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating health... by skylan_q on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:30AM (#5737275)
It only takes one counterexample to nullify a hypothesis. That is the epitome of science.

The t-test isn't science in the strictest sense. It's a statistical method which informs us of probabilities and distributions.

If I find that eating fruit makes me fatter while a study concludes that it makes people skinnier, do I believe my own experience or the study?

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