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Marijuana users feel MORE pain:...cannabis lowers pain tolerance...users need more painkillers
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3126831" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>[USER=7518]@OKC03Cobra[/USER] clearly has a solid understanding of statistics and relevant sample sizes. A (very) brief primer for the rest of us who lack his advanced understanding: <a href="https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm" target="_blank">https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm</a></p><p></p><p>He also has a deep understanding of the definitions used for things like "minor motor vehicle accident" (that's going to matter), and has a solid understanding of confounding variables, which include--but are not limited to--the specific injuries incurred by each patient and pre-existing conditions (and if somebody is using marijuana "daily or almost daily" for pain relief, it's pretty much a given that there are pre-existing conditions). Consider [USER=42224]@Annie[/USER]--who often talks of her back problems--and me--relatively healthy--getting into exactly the same accident. Do you think, just maybe, we'll have different levels of pain after the accident?</p><p></p><p>And, of course, he didn't depend upon the news story (written by people who probably lack a good understanding of statistics or medicine); he went and verified it by reading the original research paper, verifying that the researchers used proper methods, etc. We often point out how wrong the media gets things, so he went and verified up the chain to make sure there were no errors along the way.</p><p></p><p>We get it, Snake: you hates you some debbil weed, and you're willing to use deadly force to impose your hatred on others. No need to keep repeating yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3126831, member: 13624"] [USER=7518]@OKC03Cobra[/USER] clearly has a solid understanding of statistics and relevant sample sizes. A (very) brief primer for the rest of us who lack his advanced understanding: [URL]https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm[/URL] He also has a deep understanding of the definitions used for things like "minor motor vehicle accident" (that's going to matter), and has a solid understanding of confounding variables, which include--but are not limited to--the specific injuries incurred by each patient and pre-existing conditions (and if somebody is using marijuana "daily or almost daily" for pain relief, it's pretty much a given that there are pre-existing conditions). Consider [USER=42224]@Annie[/USER]--who often talks of her back problems--and me--relatively healthy--getting into exactly the same accident. Do you think, just maybe, we'll have different levels of pain after the accident? And, of course, he didn't depend upon the news story (written by people who probably lack a good understanding of statistics or medicine); he went and verified it by reading the original research paper, verifying that the researchers used proper methods, etc. We often point out how wrong the media gets things, so he went and verified up the chain to make sure there were no errors along the way. We get it, Snake: you hates you some debbil weed, and you're willing to use deadly force to impose your hatred on others. No need to keep repeating yourself. [/QUOTE]
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