• Peaty@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I have a study with a sample size of one that concludes that people shouldn’t drink milk tea because of the intense gas pain that follows. You should see my p value. It’s glorious.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Interestingly enough, there is a design that still works with a single person… But it requires a bunch of time points. In other words, you can prove milk tea is bad for you in particular by drinking it enough times and having terrible gas and/or diarrhea to improve that p value.

      You naturally can’t extrapolate that to others in the population but at least you’ll definitively prove you probably have lactose intolorance!