Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bo again. So tonight we're going to talk about studies and how to pick the right one to put your faith in.

I've had somebody ask me. I've been following you a long time I've never seen you like buy into a study and then it

get debunked how do you do that and I had never thought about it until the person asked. There's a number of steps that I go through

apparently subconsciously until now. The one is the obvious, you know, one of them is very obvious. Is it

peer-reviewed? You know, had other have other researchers looked at it.

Have they tried to poke holes in it yet?

What was the sample size?

This is all the normal stuff you ask.

A larger sample size is almost always better. 10 people is not

representative of 10 million. How did they recruit their participants? Like if you

wanted to do a study on how the average American felt about Trump,

you wouldn't want to conduct a poll in these comments sections.

You'd get a skewed result. So what was the methodology? So that's

all one. The second part is understanding that studies aren't really there normally to fully answer a question.

They're not there to draw a conclusion. They're there to provide more information so you can combine it with other stuff to draw a conclusion.

It's very rare to find a study that truly and fully answers something.

The third thing to look for is what are they actually measuring?

Because this is how people skew things a lot. I lived in a community that

moves the time the bars closed from 4 a.m. to 2 a.m.

a year later they released a study saying, you know, from 4 to five a.m. we had less wrecks just like we said we were going to we saved lives

except the number of wrecks didn't go down. They just occurred between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.

instead of 4 a.m. to 5 a.m.

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