I just published When Every Story Is A Success Story #science #EpiTwitterhttps://link.medium.com/oPXlCf7YvT
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It's one of the main reasons that it often feels like every diet works better than every other one The only testimonials you're hearing are from the people it worked for
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But then, if you study these diets, you often find that they are no better than each other, because once you include all of the people who dropped out the picture changes a lot
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If you pick your analysis group - whether that's patients on statins or black salve adherents on twitter - based on whether they survived, you're getting a skewed picture of reality
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The blog goes into more detail, but this is the take-home It may not be that the world has gone topsy-turvy. You might just be looking at a biased samplepic.twitter.com/5581ztLCpx
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