Sure, there’s some ambiguity there, but over adequately large sample sizes, trends become evident.
That is a general defense of the concept of statistical analysis. It doesn’t have anything to do with my point.
Peer reviewed research is usually pretty good at correcting for confounds that people reading about it think up in the first fifteen minutes.
It’s pretty damn slow about correcting for pervasive biases in the researcher population, though. There’s a reason we talk about science advancing funeral-by-funeral.
That is a general defense of the concept of statistical analysis. It doesn’t have anything to do with my point.
It’s pretty damn slow about correcting for pervasive biases in the researcher population, though. There’s a reason we talk about science advancing funeral-by-funeral.