One concrete data point for the thread. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
One thing that is still open after claudia_zurich’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
dave_SLC said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
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Browse GL Biochemdave_SLC said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
dave_SLC said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. I will report back once I have actually tried it.