I was talking to @Boerenkool. We completed our conversation. Take care.
Except everything you said in that post was about what I said, not @Boerenkool, soā¦
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Sorry @cardamom and @Boerenkool. I am not a scientist (wellā¦not this kind of scientist anyway), and the points made in the critique and reiterated by you both are valid. Iāll look over the study again and remove my tunnel vision this time around.
Sorry if I offended either of you. 
I actually think highly of you both.
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Thatās a very rare thing we just witnessed there on social mediaā¦ I think Harold doesnāt see my posts but Iāll acknowledge his nonetheless. We need more of thatā¦ acknowledging when we donāt know what we donāt know. Props to him in this instance.
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Thank you! I appreciate that.
to be fair, as a science reporter, we saw this study and the press release that came with it, and the authors made statements overhyping the results ā both in the releases and in interviews. At least some of the conclusions being widely publicized can be laid at their door. We reported this out as a ānot so fast, hereās what the data really showsā story, but someone who was jumping on the news, even if they had interviewed an outside source, might have taken away the wrong message, if, say, their outside source winds up being a doctor rather than someone more well versed in statistics.
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