[adnmcq999]

Infection rate increases by 1%. Even if that’s a doubling, I feel like it’s such a small increase that you can hardly claim correlation, much less causation. As for the DVT, that was a tenth of a percent increase. That’s gotta be within the error bars. And even if it isn’t, I think you’d expect more DVT with more infection, so is it directly due to marijuana?

[Spivak]

There are ~1 mil of these kinds of surgeries annually a 1% increase is 10,000 infections that could be prevented by just telling patients not to smoke for a bit. This should be touted as a huge win. Correlation and effect size are independent. You can have extremely strong correlation but a small effect size.

[obpe]

Yeah, except there were only 22,000 cannabis users so it's actually 220 people, not 10,000.

[lostlogin]

That’s still good data and an awful lot of pain, suffering, time and money.