[bransonf]

> “In hindsight I wish we’d made these other measures of well-being the primary outcome measure,” he said. “However the world — the Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency — doesn’t recognize those measures as valid.”

Am I understanding this correctly? Other academics are critical of the outcome measured, but it was specifically chosen because of recognition by national authorities.

[datameta]

If I understood it correctly I took it to mean that the organizers of the study would have preferred to lean primarily on what government health agencies see as secondary or invalid measures of well-being.