On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:16:25 -0400, Diane Kistner <dkistner@...>
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>>I doubt that the increased diabetes was caused by corn syrup itself but more
>>likely to the fact that people were eating too much refined carbohydrates (as
>>the article states) and not enough fiber.
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>This is your hypothesis,
No it is not a hypothesis. It is a conclusion based on the contents of the
study, as opposed to the headline of the study or even the abstract of the
study. If one reads the headline only which is frequently based on scare
tractics even in scientific journals, one will never get the full story. Read
the whole story, look at the graphs and then you can come up with more than an
educated guess.
Ora
>and a hypothesis constitutes proof even less
>than a study one doubts the results of; it may make logical sense, but
>if a hypothesis has not been tested and found to be true or false within
>the bounds of the study's criteria, and the results later replicated
>under the same conditions, it's nothing more than an educated guess.
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>Which is fine with me. I formulate my own hypotheses, my own educated
>guesses, from what I research and learn, and then I try to the best of
>my ability to test them scientifically on myself to see what does and
>does not work for me.
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