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maxall4today at 5:52 PM1 replyview on HN

I smell bad data. This sounds too good to be true and most studies of this kind have turned out to be false a few years down the line.

Edit: one of many examples: https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-retracts-inf...


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IshKebabtoday at 7:06 PM

It doesn't seem to link to any data at all so we can't check, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they used the "standard" P=0.05.

I think for something this unexpected you'd want a much lower P.