I said what I said. 

 The reviewers chose to only look at clinical populations and counted a study 
that found significant effects on physical aspects of stress to be a "no 
effect" study because the experimental group was already low anxiety and tested 
low again after the subjects had been meditating for a while.  Such studies 
shouldn't be counted at all, rather than listed as "no effect," because when 
you do a simple average, a study that started high and ended high then is 
averaged in with a study that started low and ended low.
 

 This skews the average.
 

 It's like asking 9 white guys and one black guy if they have ever experienced 
discrimination against blacks and concluding that anti-black discrimination in 
this country is very rare because 9 out of 10 respondents said they had never 
experienced it.
 

 L.

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