THAT'S NOT WHAT THE STUDY SAID AT ALL WHAT EVEN IS THISpic.twitter.com/AIDcfXwloq
You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
All fascinating discussion, but we were talking about the matter at hand. It appears that we agree that it's unlikely that you could blind this study or that there are objective measures for IBS
The above is relevant to whether the study is "really awesome". re more objective outcomes: presumably depends on many factors. eg, if participants were unable to work due to their symptoms then something like employment would be less prone to problems like response bias.
Awesome doesn't mean absolutely no potential sources of bias, it just means as good a study as you could hope to do, given the condition/treatment For example, getting employment in an objective way would require data linkage with employers/tax office which is fiendishly complex
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.