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IlsalaciousCrum t1_j6dvt55 wrote

Another route is study review (probably not the term, brain still booting) where an unrelated, huge, long-term study comes along with a giant population, huge test datasets, good documentation practices and publicly shared datasets. It has all the information such that some scientist just working from a computer can make connections and infer an unrelated connection. So even though none of the proposed studies would ever get funding or approval, the advancement could still come along.

I am thinking of a few big ones but I can't get my neurons on the names of the studies. You wouldn't believe the number of times in the preceding paragraph I tried to remember the name for something. If you are super interested in what I am talking about poke me in comments and later I will cite the names of studies and the unrelated papers/ideas/advancements that came out of study review.

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azuth89 t1_j6dw6hv wrote

That's meta-analysis, yeah. looking at data from one or more other studies and using it as the data for a new one. Mentioned that in the last bit as what actually happens most often with stuff like this.

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