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[โ€“] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The 'this is plausible' is actually the first 0.01% of research, finding out whether the plausible explanation actually holds water statistically (or whatever) and making sure no sort of bias goes into your results is the part that's hard

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it's one thing to guess, it's another to have it in hard numbers.