parliowl

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by parliowl 5y ago
I stand corrected on that point then. Thanks for the info! So it looks like they cherry-picked the 6 subjects who did (by chance) worse on the memory task than the other tasks. Then regression to the mean happened, and voila! Some positive
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by parliowl 5y ago
it sounds like you are assuming they collected more data than they reported, is there evidence of that? They preregistered to collect 60, but they couldve simply been unable to collect that many (eg COVID). If it was preregistered perhaps t
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by parliowl 5y ago
I don’t want to speculate about why they designed their study this way or that way, because who knows. I do feel confident in saying that Scientifically, the human data in this study are largely uninformative.
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by parliowl 5y ago
I skimmed the article for the pertinent table. Three observations: 1. There is no control group. Since people get better with cognitive tests with practice, we don’t know whether these improvements were due to the treatment or just the norm
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by parliowl 5y ago
This is so not true on many levels. Science is not about being right every time. Positive experimental findings can turn out to be wrong even if the study was excellent. This is called a type 1 error, and indeed they are guaranteed to happ
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by parliowl 6y ago
Huh, I had no idea about this. Thanks.
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by parliowl 6y ago
Could be a coincidence for sure. I've never received one previously though.
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by parliowl 6y ago
I'm assuming you mean to imply that I'm being overdramatic by suspecting something nefarious is going on when it isn't. That might be true, yes, thanks for your input.
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by parliowl 6y ago
I'm breaking the lease and moving out mid-cycle, and I bought the router independently (not rented from Comcast).
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by parliowl 6y ago
> Which means Comcast has your current address. It is not hard to look up, in their own database, a name when given an address from a rental listing website. Yes, this is exactly what I imagined, which is why I wrote, "I suppose Com
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Ask HN: Why and how did Comcast figure out I'm moving?
5 points by parliowl 6y ago|12 comments