From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
Following on from BiostatsBrad — and this may be the naive question:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
rachel_ABQ said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Pushing back on rachel_ABQ here. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.
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View Resultsrachel_ABQ said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.