alt Hacker NewsEvidence can be strong or weak. Every positive study result is evidence of presence, usually strong evidence. Every negative study result is evidence of absence, usually very weak evidence.
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rTX5CMRXIfFG • yesterday at 10:19 PM
And yet, people can be extremely vigilant about a positive correlation when it doesn’t fit their personal agenda, going as far as questioning methodology in even the least pragmatic ways possible; or, become accepting of the absence of evidence as evidence of absence when weak/no correlation is convenient to their own biases.
That's not right, a negative study often still can give evidence that something is true, but it just didn't meet the p=.05 threshold.