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The Skeptics Guide #891 - Aug 6 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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How to Model Causality in a Randomized Control Double Blend

The study authors say, and they list all imitations. You know, we've got a lot of standard types of conclusions can't be drawn. We only looked at seven different games,. Maybe Different types of people play different type of games that are more fighting games or more like driving games might have different outcomes. But there are statistical ways to try to model causality. The basic outcome of looking at the amount of time was that if a person plays more or if a person played less, it neither improved nor decreased their well being. Statistically, there some small changes but none of them reached any sort of statistical significance.

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