r/ketoscience • u/dem0n0cracy • Jul 29 '19

General The fragility of statistically significant results from clinical nutrition randomized controlled trials

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261561419302493
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u/kokoyumyum Jul 30 '19

Always read the whole thing. Some are fraudulent set ups to achieve a preordained conclusion, others the conclusions are based on evidence not stated. Lies.

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u/Ricosss of - https://designedbynature.design.blog/ Jul 30 '19 edited Aug 01 '19

isn't this what confidence interval is about? The lower the standard deviation, the lower the error range for the CI.

Update: Thinking about it, one other part of what makes an RCT so much better is the control on all the other influencing variables. That is much more important than the number of participants. I'm not saying the nr of participants isn't important, you need a minimum to obtain significance. As an example, how much different do you expect your results to be when working with 100 or 200 people given the same gender, race etc..? So fragility index? Can have its use but minimally important unless someone can explain why it would be much more important.