Re:Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys, maki...
by carbocation on Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:41PM
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Accounting for multiple testing by Bonferroni, none of the results is significant (at least, none reported in the abstract).
Other than that, this does look like a pretty poor study. They do that classic (but misguided) thing where they say that their study was conducted on a small sample and so the fact that they found anything at all is super-duper-extra telling. In reality, it just makes it more likely that any effect that is reported will be exaggerated – as was brilliantly pointed out by Andrew Gelman and John Carlin in http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/retr....