Say you did a study on chiropractic, where you assigned one population to get free chiropractic care and matched controls to not get it.
If after a few years, health outcomes of both groups were not significantly different, would that be damning evidence against chiropractic?
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@sarahdoingthing AND against medicine men! I would be very surprised if chiropracty doesn't help overall outcomes. Also hairdressing. -
@DoTheWeirdStuff good point I bet if you made an experimental group of housewives stop getting manicures they would all get sick
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@sarahdoingthing Are the populations general population or selected for the things it is supposed to treat? -
@shlevy Not selected, but chiropractic claims to treat everything from learning disorders to diabetes.
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@sarahdoingthing I smell a Hansoning in progress. -
@sarahdoingthing But my answer is it would be damning evidence against claimed large effects. There may be benefit (or harm) from chiro... - 2 more replies
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