(This article was originally published at Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World), and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)
I am outsourcing this post to Aaron Carroll, whose Upshot column eviscerates the recent claim that eating meat will give you cancer, or that eating meat is the same as smoking cigarettes. While the media is partly culpable for spreading misinformation, WHO (World Health Organization) is the ultimate responsible party here.
We all know (or so I hope), the plural of anecdote is not data.
It is time to add to this: The plural of observational study is not randomized experiment.
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