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This type of analysis isn't at all new, yet it keeps being relevant. The question is, why don't people learn and get this stuff right?

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I would like to see medical journals make an exception to the 5% rule for splitting up subject populations. Some medical journal articles pool all subjects together in order to reach that magic 5% level - even if the results are very different for males and females. So they end up giving a slightly-more-confident answer to a much less useful question - eg., what is the proper drug dosage for a half-male half-female patient.

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