alt Hacker News> Yeah, but we shouldn't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.
That's wrong. Yes, we should.
Each and every study that doesn't find evidence for what they are looking for is evidence for its absence.
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customguy • yesterday at 8:29 PM
Absence in the results of whatever we measured for. Just take the sheer hybris of "junk DNA": We don't understand this, so it's probably junk.
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That’s wrong. Only if the studies are powerful enough and are looking at the right stuff can you make any reasonable conclusions.
If the studies are powerful enough then that absolutely isn’t evidence of absence at all.