Re:Study finds connections between birth month and health
by vlasev on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:30PM
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It says 55 conditions are correlated with the month, out of 1688. That's a rather small effect. The skepticism is well-warranted IMO. Also 39 of them have been shown to exist before this study so this is not strictly new knowledge either.
Re:Study finds connections between birth month and health
by matthewmacleod on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:33PM
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I don't quite understand your point – the number of conditions that are correlated isn't related to the effect size, is it?
I know it's not new knowledge – that's kind of why I'm unsure about the skepticism. We know that these effects already exists, and this is a wider-scale analysis of potential instances of those effects.
I'd be far more surprised if there were no link!