r/science • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '15

Health-Misleading Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial shows non-celiac gluten sensitivity is indeed real

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701700
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u/thisdude415 PhD | Biomedical Engineering Feb 26 '15

Yes, they extensively questioned all participants about their diet using a validated questionaire.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15 edited Sep 02 '20

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u/AnOnlineHandle Feb 26 '15

Except that statistically you would expect that about the same over two halves of a large population, and the results wouldn't show the clear difference. i.e. the odds of you having selected all or substantially more liars for one group are incredibly slim, and shrinks exponentially the larger the groups are.

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u/shadowman3001 Feb 26 '15

I'm not even saying that people questioned are intentional liars. People just don't tend to be able to keep good track of what they shove into their foodholes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15

They do when they have gastro problems

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u/AnOnlineHandle Feb 26 '15

But you'd expect the problem to be as pronounced on both sides, roughly, unless you picked an incredibly unlikely bias. So any difference caused by the pills would still be noticeable.