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Your criticism of this study is that is is conducted on too small of plots (6 experiment groups on 12 acres = 2 acres per group) to be scaled up to real farms.
by smadge 6y ago
Your criticism of this study is that is is conducted on too small of plots (6 experiment groups on 12 acres = 2 acres per group) to be scaled up to real farms. However the real farms to which you sell synthetic fertilizer or fertilizer financial products in Subsaharan Africa are of similar sizes?
- estsauver 6y agoNo, my criticism is it’s a very small sample size to get this result, is clearly run by an organization that has a specific mission and is trying to find results for that, and to point out that while interesting, this research has different results than the rest of the ag research world.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoBasically all research is motivated to some extent, people do not choose hypotheses randomly, but on the basis of their own subjective perceptions of the state of knowledge of the field. The “rest of the ag research world” is not uniform and neither are they uniformly in disagreement with the research presented here. Finally, this is a relatively large sample size for prospective research. Many of the studies that purportedly demonstrate different outcomes are retrospective and unable to control for confounders.