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dimbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-31-10 10:38 PM
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7. Two possibilities: one is that the drugs which performed best
were selected and retained even tho their superiority in the tests was partly due to chance. You see this in selective breeding, the offspring of tall parents are taller than average but not as tall as their parents because height is partly due to 'noise.'

Alternative two, the effects of inflation on money in general making it less valuable to the researchers to fake the tests.
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  -The Decline Effect n2doc  Dec-31-10 01:53 PM   #0 
  - i'm rec-ing this -- because i'm both skeptical and curious. nt  xchrom   Dec-31-10 02:09 PM   #1 
  - Interesting article. Noise has value when it yields a positive result  HereSince1628   Dec-31-10 02:53 PM   #2 
  - My very first thought it  SheilaT   Dec-31-10 03:13 PM   #3 
  - Fascinating. The impression I get from the article is that this is most likely due to ...  Jim__   Dec-31-10 04:02 PM   #4 
  - There is no great way of addressing confirmation bias.  Igel   Dec-31-10 06:23 PM   #5 
  - Two possibilities: one is that the drugs which performed best  dimbear   Dec-31-10 10:38 PM   #7 
  - its a terrable thing to have to go through.  skoalyman   Dec-31-10 08:09 PM   #6 
  - Another possible explanation: increasing placebo effect  Jim Lane   Jan-01-11 08:50 PM   #8 
  - Some commentary  n2doc   Jan-06-11 07:15 PM   #9 
 

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