KevinCompounds said:There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
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.
JessicaH_TX said:Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Taking it to my next appointment.
KevinCompounds said:There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
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