alt Hacker NewsDid I miss it, or do the authors not bother to explain how the original methodology is wrong? Do we just take their word for it?
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barney54 • today at 1:54 AM
Do you think Costco really is associated with 2.2 million deaths?
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neolefty • today at 2:29 AM
They didn't! They mentioned receiving "eight lines of code" and, at the end of the article, write:
> It is especially telling that no matter what landmark we applied to the methodology, we have yet to get a negative result. There is, in fact, a real chance that you simply cannot get a negative result from this method.
My guess: The code is not shareable. Maybe its method is laughably disprovable?
Not that I can see. They claim to have reverse engineered the methodology, but they have not obviously published what they came up with. They also have no explanation as to why they can find positive correlations with all kinds of locations but no negative correlations with anything.