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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey, thank you so much for looking into it and checking it for me, I really appreciate that.

Clearly I was wrong here, I apologise for not checking the report closely enough, though I think they probably should have mentioned that they had measured and seen an impact. I totally understand why they don’t want to claim that impact is totally caused by their changes but from my cursory reading it didn’t seem like they had measured anything at all.

Going to edit or delete my previous comments to retract them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

yeah, studies like that need to do a lot of work - if they're any good - and look at a a lot of different angles.. The news articles usually do a terrible job of explaining such studies and the strengths and weaknesses - so it is hard to see the real evidence base or assess how much weight to put on it.

Unfortunately, in my opinion - the best way to know if such studies are any good is to ignore the news article completely , find the the full paper and spend a bit of time trawling through it.