Hey medical/statistics twitter, is “numerically but not statistically separated from placebo” a fancy way of saying “it didn’t work, we’re trying to make you believe that a trend is a thing?”
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Yes. It's ironic that the more words people use to try to justify something, the more likely it is that there is something to hide (in this case, a non-significant finding). In other cases, a POTUS who is trying to obfuscate the truth. Let's hope the truth will prevail!
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Agree with the use of ‘negative’ here as appears the authors starting point was their alternative hypothesis. But do we really ever have a ‘negative’ finding? We SHOULD just have ‘findings’, that make it more or less likely to accept the null hypothesis.
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True, but I think the term negative more reasonably conveys the lay understanding of a trial that failed to provide evidence against the null
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