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July 19, 2016 10:04 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4d0FwLRfn34/explainer-how-anaedotal-evide.html
Explainer: how anecdotal evidence about alternative medicine can lead you astray
Jonathan Jarry's short video on the problems with anaecdotal evidence for "alternative medicine" is a powerful, easy-to-digest primer on the ways that confounding variables, survivor bias and regression to the mean can make stuff like reiki seem like it works, and how double-blind tests can uncover these problems and help us figure out what works and what doesn't -- especially important is the idea that "dead men tell no tales"; that is, no one who died because alternative medicine failed to help them will ever tell you how great it worked. (via Motherboard)
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