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ryandraketoday at 8:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

There's no study that's good enough for HN.

I don't think I've ever seen a science or research article posted here that didn't immediately get picked apart for this or that in the comment section. The methodology is flawed. The data is flawed. The conclusions cannot be drawn. There are confounding variables not accounted for. The sources are questionable. It's become a trope at this point. Either our commenters' standards are way too high, or all of science reporting is deeply flawed.


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HPsquaredtoday at 9:32 PM

Maybe most studies actually are junk.

nxobjecttoday at 8:58 PM

No study is perfect – research is and has always been expensive, and playing devil's advocate while seeing the arc of promising research is one of the fundamental skills of reading and doing research.

uniqueuidtoday at 8:54 PM

Why not both? :)