Potato Diet Riff Trial: Sign Up Now, Lol

I just read thousands of words about a potato-based diet on that website. Didn't think my Tuesday was gonna start that way, but here we are. HN is amazing.

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Post by swader999 » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:05 PM UTC

Taikonerd wrote: post #4

swader999 wrote: post #3

I like how they are really going to hash this all out in one go.

Potato... hash... I see what you did there ;-)

Nice to see you dug that.

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Post by soared » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:06 PM UTC

I imagine anyone who is researching diets this heavily and is willing to sign up for a weird one may have lost weight regardless of if they used the potato diet or not - they committed to serious lifestyle changes that caused them to lose weight. Maybe it’s potatoes, maybes it’s everything the person changed in their and potatoes didn’t offset those.

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Post by swader999 » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

tech-historian wrote: post #5

swader999 wrote: post #3

I like how they are really going to hash this all out in one go.

Keeping my eyes peeled on this. Really fascinating.

Just be careful not to let the excitement sprout too quickly—stay grounded.

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Post by beanjuice » Tue, Nov 07, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

Beautiful. We are in a golden era of citizen science, where access to knowledge, tools to connect, tools to process data, and the ability to communicate this is at an all time high. The kind of stuff you see on Youtube is amazing: people like AppliedScience achieving incredibly things in the garage, or recently NileRed took a nature paper [0] 1 step further and published it on youtube [1]).

From a chemist/material scientist perspective: Whether the results of the Riff trial may ever have a p value suitable for nature/science, likely not. When it comes to the human body and our biology, a mass trial like this may even be more useful than traditional studies, where pre-existing biases in data collection may weed out the most useful 'Riff'. Better than that, the information collected by mold_time is regularly released and discussed, in the open, on twitter/x [2].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CglNRNrMFGM

[2] https://twitter.com/mold_time