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Patur Aval Assur
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Sam:

I’ve seen the study before as well as a couple of reviews of the study. Let’s just say the study doesn’t demonstrate anything. For a very simple reason. If you are computing the average number of seeds then by definition that means that different pomegranates have different amounts of seeds. Therefore the average will be based on how many pomegranates you use, and the size of the pomegranates you use. In other words, the one conducting the study controls the results. If I took two sets of a hundred pomegranates and figured out the average for each group, they would not be the same. So the average number of seeds in any group of pomegranates is essentially meaningless.