At the very least, you’re testing whether the model that predicts this is accurate.
i feel like it’s so obvious that all readers will either already agree and not learn anything, or disagree so fundamentally that changing their mind would require diving much deeper into fundamental beliefs.
Yes, I think so. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/thXohzXrWCA2EhZCH/mateusz-baginski-s-shortform#MRNSMcFxFuW6kZbap
At the very least, you’re testing whether the model that predicts this is accurate.