• @BelieveRevolt@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    How many “participants” do you have? What’s your sample size here? Certainly not statistically significant enough to draw this kind of absolute conclusion (“You cannot survive on a vegan diet”).

    • @Galven@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Enough to see a clear pattern of people going “I’m going to be a vegan youtuber”, then for 3-5 years they say they’re fine, then the medical problems starts, they go to a variety of doctors, take all the supplements as they should, and nothing gets better, than they start eating meat, and the problems stop. And someone makes a compilation of them going through that process. YouTube has been a serious thing for since 2012, these people documented their lives for 3-8 years, better than any study could afford to. Again, to dismiss that is foolishness.

      • @BelieveRevolt@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Again, a handful of vegan Youtubers is not a statistically significant sample that proves every vegan is going to develop health problems like you claimed.

        • @Galven@lemm.ee
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          02 years ago

          The study doesn’t say the number of participants in the abstract, so, technically, you don’t know what a statistically significant sample is. and this is a couple dozen youtubers.

          Anyway. I don’t think I can convince you, nor can you convince me, so, how about we talk about something else, tangentially related? Have you heard of precision fermentation?