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Originally Posted by Subby  This is a disingenuous line of argument. The dropout rate was for the ENTIRE study group, no differentiation between the ketogenic or the low calorie group. For all you know all the dropouts were in the low calorie group. Your implicit focus on ketogenic diets as singularly problematic is not founded on information here. It's speculation.
Regardless of which, you'd need to contextualise your argument in term of typical drop out rates in order to make any meaningful point here. For all we know, it's a typical drop out rate for any dietary test. |
Not really disingenuous. Whereas patients are assigned randomly to test groups, drop outs are self-selected, which affects the representativeness of the sample group.
