lisa_labSD said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
emily_PDX said:The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
lisa_labSD said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
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