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Taxoro t1_j0qiutx wrote

How common is this for there to be actual statistical significance to it?

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Outlander_-_ t1_j0ro0bn wrote

It’s in the article, and study.

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Taxoro t1_j0rycc2 wrote

4500 people for a medical survey is very very little.

How are they gonna isolate all the other factors that could play a role other than the coffee? Coffee drinkers may be more employed, could eat healthier etc. etc.

To me it's not that clear that it's actually the coffee making a difference.

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SnooPuppers1978 t1_j0tpc0q wrote

No amount of people would be able to make possible confounders to go away, if it's not RCT.

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Otherwise-Way-1176 t1_j0vqd2z wrote

That’s not what statistical significance means at all.

Something can be statistically significant and just be a correlation.

4500 people is plenty to establish statistical significance. They could’ve had far fewer people and still established statistical significance.

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