<<<Thus the need for mutltiple > studies by different groups of independent researchers. Good > statistical modeling is part art, part technical -- based on a deep > knowledge of hard-core statisics. > > One study, even if peer reviewed, doesn't establish that much -- it is not definitive.>>>
Except if it is a "cancer sure", or something, then you will never hear the end of it for months from the scientists, the financiers, and the media, until it is realised that the one study was not enough and the thing doesn't work. <<Multiple independent studies are needed to establish > viable new explanations and causes. Particularly something as > non-intuitive as the ME.>>> Well , that is why there is the peer-review process. Because "independant studies ' do not exist. Someone researching the ME may be biased against it also. Therefore the peer-review exists. There are at least 3 credible studies published under peer-review for ME. Travis had two published in Int. Journal of Neuroscience, and there are a couple of others which have withstood extreme skeptical pounding of a scale never before submitted to any other studies probably anywhere. No study on earth could come out of such prejudiced scrutiny and not loose some face, but these studies have stood up pretty well considering. > > For a good discussion of "missing", as well as determination of > causual, not just correlated, relationships, see Stephen Levitt's > "Freakonomics" -- its been onthe best seller list for a while. One of > a number of examples that he discusses: the largest factor in > explaining the large crime redution in the 1990s was the legalization > of abortion in the 70's. >>> Yes, but this study you speak was conducted by people who wanted to prove this result. They were looking for it. It has not been scrutinized anything like the way the ME studies have been pummelled. It has not been verified and is just one study, which you yourself have said is not enough to show evidence of an effect. OffWorld ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
