What does this methodology measure anyway?

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    8 days ago

    So what’s the actual causation here? If it’s random noise it’s not clear to me why these things have a positive association rather than negative.

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      8 days ago

      As best I can tell, the statistical test is poorly designed and doesn’t really measure anything

      It is especially telling that no matter what landmark we applied to the methodology, we have yet to get a negative result. There is, in fact, a real chance that you simply cannot get a negative result from this method.