Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate
by owens99 on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:43PM
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You don’t seem to think bias is reproducible.
Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate
by bluGill on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:40PM
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It is, but the scientific method is the best we have to eliminate bias. If the study design is sound and the results reproduce it is a fact. Now it may well be the study design is biased, but since it is documented anyone who sees a new bias is welcome to design a new study that eliminates that (I write this as if doing a scientific study is easy, in the real world it isn't but I'll ignore that real objection). There are also interesting meta-studies that eliminate some bias.
The only reasonable answer is "It doesn't matter." As long as the result is reproducible, coinciding with commonly held preconceptions or not is of no relevance whatsoever. All results need to be equally validated for reproducibility.