[coldpie]

> Odd, I would have expected this to be somewhat the case?

I don't think anybody was expecting to be surprised by this study. In practice, most science is pretty boring and rarely breaks expectations. But being unsurprising does not mean it's not worth doing. A lot of studies are simply validating expected outcomes and providing foundational data points for future studies to refer back to. For example, a future study might use this study to justify funding ("as shown in Study 2025.abcd, glucose is highly variable... we propose to further study this by controlling for ... which will help us understand the influence of ..." etc etc).

[taeric]

Ah, great point! I definitely got the impression that this was a surprise, but I can't say why I got that impression. That said, I did not intend this as a criticism of running the study! Quite the contrary, glad they did it. I was only meaning my comment to be contra the sense of surprise I had.

[coldpie]

It's a pretty common reaction :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964238

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43964428

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963196