Boffetta explains that this aspect of the study design could "be an explanation of the weak effect we found."

Boffetta解释这一方面的研究设计也“可能解释我们所发现的微弱的效果。”

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The Committee found the conclusions made by the authors unconvincing due to the study design, and the data source.

GACVS发现，这两项研究的作者所得出的结论不能令人信服，因为研究设计和资料来源都存在缺陷。

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The study design may also have blurred the lines between real and fake acupuncture, muting the effects of the real thing.

这项研究设计也可能模糊了真假针灸之间的界限，掩盖了真针灸的效果。

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Co-author James Burke, who helped design the study.

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The study design raises a lot of questions, from the reasonableness of assessing learning growth after only three full semesters of college to the reliability of the C.

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One simply has to look at the study design.

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Im not the first to point out that the study design has some issues, and in any case proving there isnt a difference is hard (this only shows that they failed to find a difference between drugs and dieting).

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