Scientists: Even for us it is better to be lucky than smart

Discussion in 'Health and Fitness' started by Pekelo, Nov 26, 2020.

  1. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    The Oxford Covid-19 trial scientists accidentally discovered how to increase the effectiveness of their vaccine, by wrongly half dosing some of their trial subjects.

    Full dose twice >>> 62% effective
    Half dose+full dose >>> 90% effective

     
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  2. How did they arrive at the 70 percent figure? The same way trading system sellers arrive at their averages and both are equally trustworthy.
     
  3. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    They averaged the results once they figured how many had the half dose in it.
     
  4. Not that simple. Those in the group that received the smallest dose first were on average younger, and the sample size of the group was smaller.