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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-12-17 06:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #2906 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2906 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-12-18 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
One study means sod all anyway. You need many, peer reviewed, to even start to draw proper conclusions.

I hate how the media reports on science, with complete misunderstanding of how the process works. It's a personal bugbear.

For instance, that widely-quoted study about older womens' fertility dropping sharply, came from one study that used Victorian data. It was about historical fertility levels with a very small sample size, yet I've seen the data quoted dozens of times, scaremongering women into having kids early. As if that study had anything to say to modern women about how to plan a family.
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[personal profile] diet_poison 2014-12-18 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
True! And that sounds really frustrating. :/ Especially since there's plenty of science on fertility to look at. One old, badly-performed study is hardly worth looking at in the first place.