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by m_dupont 1042 days ago
Yeah the title here really overstates the strength of the conclusions.

Didn't read every table in the paper but they clearly state that a linear fit was parsimonious with the data, and adding quadratic and exponential terms only modestly improved the performance but neither even had a p-value of less than 0.05 (I am aware that overreliance on p-values is a bit of an issue, but nonetheless).

Its also easy to see from the graph in the paper that the linear fit goes through all the error bars.

* edit / Disclaimer: only skim-read the article, I should be working right now