• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I understand the study’s basic methodology. It doesn’t change my point. And I don’t know that it’s never going to be provable. Maybe with enough data we could find a very subtle pattern that proves it. The point is, this study doesn’t, nor do any of the others on their own, but they collectively provide evidence that the hypothesis may be true.

    • Yendor@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You realise you’ve just described science there. Nothing can ever be conclusively proven, you can only disprove it, or build more evidence for it.

      • Tedesche@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        No, I’m not. Ironically, I think you are. But I’m tired of debating this with people. It says it in the linked article. Debate with the authors of the study if you want to.

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          1 year ago

          I agree with you, it’s in the article. Not sure why people are injecting a new thesis instead of discussing the one presented and researched