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Early birds wake up at the crack of dawn and struggle to stay alert and productive (especially in the cognitive realm) in the evening. Night owls perform well in the evening but are worthless if you yank them out of bed too early in the morning. There...

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Posted By: StatManXX (January 14, 2009 at 8:40 PM)

Ioannidis published two insturctive papers in 2005. In JAMA, he noted that randomized clinical trials replicated around 80% of the time. Observational studies (the Mathews et al. study is ovservational) failed to replicate ~80% of the time. A consumer should not believe a claim from an observation study until it is replicate. Who funds these studies anyway?

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