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Can your microbiome shift in only a week, after a dietary change? (ubiomeblog.com)
2 points by accarmichael on May 29, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


No error range is reported so it's very hard to tell if those differences in one week are meaningful, much less accurate to 3+ significant digits.

To start with, what's the variation in microbiome from 10 samples taken throughout the same day, or even the same hour? If the variation after a week is in the same range as the variation after 5 minutes, then it isn't really significant, is it?




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