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I long for the day when these correlation-digging studies with absurd claims will stop. https://xkcd.com/882/
"In addition to MANOVA, the Bonferroni procedure was used to protect against multiple comparisons."
The Bonferroni correction is one of the most conservative ways to correct for multiple testing.
in my personal experience, eating chocolate has pushed me into IBS trouble, which i realized such a disease existed after 15 years. I stopped eating chocolate for the past 5 years. Now i am happy. Brain is a sugar sucker. Eat food which has natural sugar (like fruits) and you still be happy. Chocolate is just one sour junk which sugar added to please your bain (which is the trick). I think eat the chocolate without s…
Bitter, not sour. Lemons are sour.
I long for the day when these correlation-digging studies with absurd claims will stop. https://xkcd.com/882/
You should take a look at the journal article. They comment on how they corrected for multiple testing "In addition to MANOVA, the Bonferroni procedure was used to protect against multiple comparisons." The Bonferroni correction is one of the most conservative ways to correct for multiple testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
in my personal experience, eating chocolate has pushed me into IBS trouble, which i realized such a disease existed after 15 years. I stopped eating chocolate for the past 5 years. Now i am happy. Brain is a sugar sucker. Eat food which has natural sugar (like fruits) and you still be happy. Chocolate is just one sour junk which sugar added to please your bain (which is the trick). I think eat the chocolate without s…
I long for the day when these correlation-digging studies with absurd claims will stop. https://xkcd.com/882/
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should take a look at the journal article. They comment on how they corrected for multiple testing "In addition to MANOVA, the Bonferroni procedure was used to protect against multiple comparisons." The Bonferroni correction is one of the most conservative ways to correct for multiple testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
The study is still 'correlation-digging'. Bonferroni won't fix the problem that these kinds of studies will throw up statistically significant associations that provide no insight into anything meaningful, due to confounders, biases, poor design etc. There is no equivalent xkcd however.
A series of follow-ups might look like this:
1: GWAS to look for genetic association with chocolate consumption.
2: Mendelian randomization to assess whether an inherent predisposition for increased chocolate consumption leads to increased cognitive function.
The same approach has been used to assess whether there is a dose-response of alcohol on mortality (the answer appears to be "yes," and there is no U-shaped curve).[2; non-paywalled]
This is mostly just to say that I'm not convinced by such tortured data in an association study, but if there is enough interest in the hypothesis, then the path forward to assess causality is clear.
1 = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666316...
in my personal experience, eating chocolate has pushed me into IBS trouble, which i realized such a disease existed after 15 years. I stopped eating chocolate for the past 5 years. Now i am happy. Brain is a sugar sucker. Eat food which has natural sugar (like fruits) and you still be happy. Chocolate is just one sour junk which sugar added to please your bain (which is the trick). I think eat the chocolate without s…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should take a look at the journal article. They comment on how they corrected for multiple testing "In addition to MANOVA, the Bonferroni procedure was used to protect against multiple comparisons." The Bonferroni correction is one of the most conservative ways to correct for multiple testing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonferroni_correction
The study is still 'correlation-digging'. Bonferroni won't fix the problem that these kinds of studies will throw up statistically significant associations that provide no insight into anything meaningful, due to confounders, biases, poor design etc. There is no equivalent xkcd however.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-reusable-hold...
Just as an FYI, I found a company recently that makes chocolate with zeor sugar, that's sweetened with Stevia: https://www.cocopolo.com/ I didn't like their dark chocolate, but their milk chocolate comes pretty close to regular milk chocolate.