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tgb on Jan 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sl...

Here's a Nature opinion piece arguing in favor of N=1 studies: https://www.nature.com/news/personalized-medicine-time-for-o...

And another more recent one https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07535-2

diminoten on Jan 21, 2019 [–]

The n=1 isn't the problem, it's the environment. "Some guy's room" is hardly a lab, and then, when there is so much that can go wrong, such as in this study, n=1 is terrible.

This is terrible pseudoscience and not worth anyone's time.

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