lisa_labSD 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.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
MariaRD said:Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
lisa_labSD 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.
I read this differently from lisa_labSD, on substance rather than tone. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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