Message from @MOS MAIORVM (AKA Sola)
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I'm debating the validity of the results of any given study based on length and size
It is well established that such factors are important
Part of the scientific method if I recall properly
Not as important as your average person considers them
And how to do you come to that conclusion or measure such a thing?
Look
I'm not saying a long study makes it valid
but a long study under the same given conditions is superior to a short study
By observing the overall quality of science in terms of measurable impact or real insight
And again I say
Not necessarily
Long enough is the best one can say
Long enough is subjective
To some degree yes
Rest dependent on studied thing
Science always proceded on insight
Confirmed by experiment perhaps
Perhaps not
If we were to tally the causes of starvation to attempt to prevent it, counting only the past 100 years of history is entirely inferior to measuring the entirety of both history and prehistory.
This is objective
The better in what sense
To check against your own conclusions?
To compound an error you made?
The better understanding of what causes starvation
More data also gives you the ability to construct viable seeming statistical models
Which are basically best fit abstractions. Or not even best fit
That are not true. You see this a lot in recent high energy physics
And astronomy
Where there is a surfiet of data
And papers being written every day based on it that will turn out to be spurious
The vast majority
Actually it would give you less ability to construct viable statisticial models because it allots for more variation
Viable as in viable seeming
I don't see how that changes anything
More data = more possibility for deviation of an imagined pattern
My point isnt the things you said dont matter
This helps remove human bias when theories don't match up
I respectfully think most of the scientific community disagrees
But you're free to your opinion
More data is not necessarily more possibility for deviation