Vladimir_M comments on What should I have for dinner? (A case study in decision making) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 12 August 2010 04:54:02PM *  8 points [-]

jimrandomh:

Here are some of the stupid things which researchers have done, which have lead to bad dietary advice: [...]

You forgot:

(5) Conducting a more or less decent controlled study, and then releasing a popular version of the results to be carried by the press and proselytized by various quasi-experts, busybodies, politicians, and bureaucrats, in which a tendency observed merely as a statistical phenomenon in the given sample is presented as a universal rule applicable to each single human individual.

Comment author: rabidchicken 14 August 2010 09:06:14PM 1 point [-]

That almost goes without saying.