Re:Ask HN: Under pressure from industry, how can academics p...
by softwarefounder on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:23PM
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Also understand that if the company comes under heat, the VP has "protected" him/herself by trying to reconcile it.
We did that. We only didn't respond to the request to meet in person. Sorry if I was unclear.
> I'd be asking for information, too. Not because I want a fight, but because it is simply good practice to understand people's concerns about your product, and have an opportunity to fix the problems.
Good point. Unfortunately, we don't really know _why_ the product doesn't work. We only know that statistically speaking, we have low quality evidence that the impact on tested outcomes is negative. So fixing things won't be easy at all.