Estimating actual treatment effects is possible but not practical. Is that a fair summary of the parent?
I’m just saying it’s hard, and that informal means won’t work very well. Well-designed experiments in psychology tend to be designed to trick people into doing or thinking the thing that’s being tested, in order to avoid some of these effects.
I’m just saying it’s hard, and that informal means won’t work very well. Well-designed experiments in psychology tend to be designed to trick people into doing or thinking the thing that’s being tested, in order to avoid some of these effects.
I mean not practical for the LW community in the way MichaelVassar would like to see happen.