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It doesn't start with "my wife didn't get sick after getting treatment X". This is not data, this is noise.
by gcbirzan 5y ago
It doesn't start with "my wife didn't get sick after getting treatment X". This is not data, this is noise.
- Lammy 5y agoHow about “These milkmaids didn’t die of smallpox after contact with the udder pustules of this sick cow”? Maybe they’ll even name something after it!
- brokensegue 5y agoanecdotes like this are how you generate a hypothesis. the OP here said "So for me, my take is the drugs absolutely worked. " They do not know this. This is not how science works. They jokingly said n=1 but given it's not a RCT it's more like n=N/A.