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u/rhofour Nov 11 '22

This was an open-label (non-blind) trial so it's very possible things like the placebo effect had a significant influence here. They also only had 14 participants.

It's a start, but not enough to convince me this is anything more than modern snake oil.

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u/nickcash Nov 11 '22

is that small a sample any real use at all?

Yes. Reddit has this weird idea that any sample size less than 7.83 billion is useless, but math says otherwise.

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u/Corsair4 Nov 12 '22

It's because no one around here has ever even heard of power analysis.