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| Nov 12, 2012 at 21:30 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @mb3041023: Yes. I used the term "association" advisedly. The quote from the paper's abstract used the term "protective effect" which caused me to raise an eyebrow. | |
| Nov 12, 2012 at 16:35 | comment | added | MattBagg | I think it is worth qualifying or clarifying "strong association". Observational studies that find mildly altered risk of low incidence diseases are rarely replicated in randomized controlled studies, which are considered the gold standard of evidence in medicine. A strong statistical association in these observational studies is weak evidence of causality. | |
| Nov 10, 2012 at 20:31 | vote | accept | Zonata | ||
| Nov 10, 2012 at 3:41 | history | answered | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |