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Re:If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how ba... by licebmi__at__ on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:22PM (#27530303)
That seems broad enough to describe the human history isn’t it? So, “keep doing what you do”?
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Re:If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how ba... by chromaton on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:27PM (#27530362)
Not necessarily. You could just fall back on authority, superstition, or navel-gazing.
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Re:If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how ba... by dpe82 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:25PM (#27531075)
That would probably fall under "testing [new/other] systems to see if they also result in known good values."
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