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by theGeatZhopa 1215 days ago
You just have to understand the law of numbers. Basic statistics.

Its just like a worm in an apple. By having one apple with a worm, you can't tell all apples are wormed. Because, just of pure experience, there are apples without a worm, too.

So you need more than one apple to be confident about your statement.

And so it goes. The bigger the cohort, the less influence can be seen on the results.

And that's all about. The same applies to the studies that showed ivermectin have a use in an infection with the (COVID) virus.

The cohorts have been between 40 and 200 people in all of round about 30 studies. Compared to the millions and now billions of people doing the jabs.

So. You see at once, if a study can be trusted or not, by looking into the size of cohorts/samples. The bigger the cohort, the more trustworthy the study.

Have a nice time :)