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I got the info from DUK regarding the hypos survey

>>Further to our recent emails, the hypoglycaemia survey was conducted through our website. It was on the website for four weeks with a pop-up invitation to participate added from weeks two to four. The questionnaire was also mentioned in our e-newsletter and in Balance.<<

The contributers, were obviously self selecting and far from a representative population. I read "Balance" and somehow, I didn't regiser this thing.
If you have self selecting contributord to data, it's always seriously skewed.
Hana
 
This is a known problem with this method of gathering data. People with nothing to report do precisely that - don't respond.

In the well respected book How to Lie with Statistics [Darell Huff - now out of print] this was known as "The sample with the built in bias".
 
One would've hoped that an organisation like DUK which is involved with a lot of research, would be aware of this risk, and not release the results to the mass media so they can hype it as more of a problem than it really is.

This week I had a form from my DAFNE team about hypos. They just wanted the number of hypos I'd had in the past year. Nothing about whether they were more/less frequent, more/less intrusive than pre-DAFNE, whether I was more/less confident about treating them, or anything else. I don't have time to trawl through my bs records for the past year to count the hypos, so just wrote some comments that I think are more enlightening than a bare number: I have many more hypos, not surprising as my levels are lower overall, but they're much less of a problem than pre-DAFNE.
Don't want them using my figures to report that DAFNE has made things worse, when in fact it has made things far better.
 
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