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2. Gupta misunderstood the Oregon experiment
Tue Dec 3, 2013, 01:12 AM
Dec 2013

The Oregon study actually found improved health from having insurance but because of the relatively limited sample size the measures did not reach the certainty level normally required for experimental certainty. But that was not because the improvements were not of a magnitude hoped for - it was because in the sample size various health measures for a variety of relatively uncommon ailments failed to reach "statistical significance." Which would be expected given the sample size. Gupta confuses "not statistically significant" with "no improvement."



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