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[–] aFaustianBargain 184 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The article itself is over a decade old and based on questionable data gathering and a faulty analysis processes. If you read the article they published they essentially didn't find anything, determined without providing evidence that other factors couldn't be a determining factor, and then data-dredging when they could find anything statistically significant to match their hypothesis.

SkeptVet article explaining the findings in detail.

Basically it was just shitty science.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I mean my dog could be an exception but she shits always in the direction we walk. No exceptions.

[–] Ultraviolet 4 points 8 months ago

I guess you could say the study was dogshit.