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Re: elgringo post# 186212

Thursday, 04/02/2020 12:16:30 PM

Thursday, April 02, 2020 12:16:30 PM

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"There sure is a lot of dead people that didn't receive it. I thnk that would be evidence."

No. You have to know the number who did receive it and still died. Let's take the study that Rayo referenced recently and look at the numbers:

Untreated Patients: 0% deaths, 0% ICU admissions, 100% recovery
Treated Patients: 3.8% deaths, 11.5% ICU admissions, 85% recovery

Does this give you confidence that the treatment people are promoting as a miracle cure is all that great?

The groups we need to compare are a) randomly assigned to conditions; b) in a double-blind procedure where half receive a placebo; and c) have a sufficiently large sample size. Only when we compare those groups will we know for certain whether or not the treatment is effective.

In spite of the differences in outcomes as shown above, scientists still found evidence for the possibility that the treatment might be effective. The difference in deaths and ICU admissions could be due to a small sample size and the fact that assignment was not random.
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