pete_nash said:Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…
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.
DanielChem_CHI said:The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Taking it to my next appointment.
pete_nash said:Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…
I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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