Guest guest Posted March 29, 2006 Report Posted March 29, 2006 A quick soap box on empirical evidence: One reason why it is important to study effects of different things across large samples of people is to help us know whether a correlation (two things that happen at the same time) may or may not be causally connected. Did the back pain stop because the omega 3 stopped, or did it just happen to stop at that time? If we found this to be true in 199 out of 200 people, we would have a better guess. But even then, different people are different. If you are the one person out of 200 that reacts differently, the study wouldn’t mean much to you. Also why ‘one case’ or anectdotal evidence is not usually the most helpful - but sometimes it could be. From: ACT_for_the_Public [mailto:ACT_for_the_Public ] On Behalf Of Dennis Bentley Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:46 AM To: ACT_for_the_Public Subject: Omega 3 Someone mentioned taking omega 3 for depression and for the heart. It gave severe back pain. When I stopped taking omega 3 my back pain went away Dennis Quote
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