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How to Spot Statistical Garbage

The Political Orphanage

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The Worst Study Types

Are there some fields that are more reliable than others in terms of studies? I would say nutrition is probably the worst if I had to pick one. People who do observational studies very rarely tell you how many things they checked. They just tell you the ones that they found. Those are the things that get published for clickbait.

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