Too Much Numbers
Dec. 29th, 2012 07:39 am1) Cranberry juice has been proven to have 0, none, not a bit, zilch, not any, effect on UTI in clinical trials of thousands of men and women.
2) Anecdotes are not evidence. Read about the Placebo Effect. It is stronger than cranberry juice.
3) Statistics are not evidence. Read about Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
4) There have been over 200 studies this week alone using "statistics show" as the opening argument, from people who must have purchased their PhD because a real one would know better.
Science is dead. Long live the statistician.
EDIT: To be science there has to be a "this causes that by this action" demonstration. Not "This causes that because there were these many of this and those many of that and the numbers are close to each other so we guess they were related".
2) Anecdotes are not evidence. Read about the Placebo Effect. It is stronger than cranberry juice.
3) Statistics are not evidence. Read about Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
4) There have been over 200 studies this week alone using "statistics show" as the opening argument, from people who must have purchased their PhD because a real one would know better.
Science is dead. Long live the statistician.
EDIT: To be science there has to be a "this causes that by this action" demonstration. Not "This causes that because there were these many of this and those many of that and the numbers are close to each other so we guess they were related".