but then you get the opposite problem

I call it the SS Paradigm

Report citations?

because it is easier to publish something with the right citations, you get 100 000 articles pointing in one direction, while 1 000 000 equaly good or better article are refused because they cant cite the "established" ones.

Ahhh.

This is how the diagnostics of Bipolar Disorder detrailed. (thus the teaching slide)

I guess it is sort of anti-science in that way.

It's much harder to change the perspective.

yep

Or people become less open to other alternatives.

any article studying bipolar disorder (as that is the active example) not finding a hereditary factor above 0.7 will not be published in the esteemed journals.

It still seems like the use is there, but they should be a little more skeptic.

more evidence exists - probably - pointing to non hereditary factors, but that is squelched by the Journals.

@Maw Its a balance and a golden middle, like anything else.

That, to me, sounds like you report a value for gravity that isn't 9.81, which isn't uncommon, depending on where you are on the Earth.

Sometimes who Publishes Research Findings becomes more important than the Finding themselves.

@William Dinan, you just advanced to level 9!

And people respond with "what's this paganism?!"

@Maw somewhat more complicated. This situation is like if gravity varied with who is doing the measurements.

@William Dinan exactly

That is exactly what I'm saying @Doc As it's entirely relative to where you are.

9.81 is the average.

(But not the mean, pretty sure)

and any medical professor have to remove himself from the clinic for 10-20 years just to become one. So the profs will be those least in line with what is happinging on the floor, @William Dinan

@Maw right

Or was it specifically at sea-level? I forgot.

Probably the latter.

Also relative to the location of the moon.

It's complex.

there you go. Polyfactorial, @Maw

And how dense the area around you is.

There are a lot of factors, but many are not huge changes.

It's a massive issue of scale.

Even Temp

temperature

https://wirepoints.org/gun-violence-has-killed-23-times-more-chicago-youth-than-covid-wirepoints-quicktake/

Depending on how precise you need to be, those issues of scale become more and more relevant.

E.g: Ballistics.

Versus engineering.

I have to stop procrastinating now, and get some shit done. Yes. It is shit. It is literary references for a report. 😭