The study is textbook author and peer confirmation bias reported by a media outlet with confirmation bias. As far as I can tell reading the NYT link and the original Harvard Study the study was performed by lawyers at Harvard Law School and peer reviewed by lawyers - not scientists or statisticians.
To put it another way; no epidemiologist or academic in the hard sciences would study a population of 1500, note a three to five percent variance between two species or types in the study population, and call that three to five percent variance statistically significant enough to draw a meaningful conclusion.
But I guess a lawyer or a humanities professor would if they had an ax to grind.
To put it another way; no epidemiologist or academic in the hard sciences would study a population of 1500, note a three to five percent variance between two species or types in the study population, and call that three to five percent variance statistically significant enough to draw a meaningful conclusion.
But I guess a lawyer or a humanities professor would if they had an ax to grind.
