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Re:Dots Will Be Connected by chrisco255 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:56AM (#34878560)
Come now, there are certainly heuristics with which you move about and make decisions in the world every day without investing 3 years a piece on. And even when you desire to seek the advice of some trusted expert, you rely on heuristics and biases to inform your decision on which one to trust.
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Re:Dots Will Be Connected by jl6 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:25AM (#34878783)
Sure, but I don’t call it research.
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Re:Dots Will Be Connected by hutzlibu on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:39AM (#34879865)
Yes, but in the common language this is what it is called. And researching the existing literature is proper scientific research btw. so you can do scientific research, without going all in, like you seemed to imply.
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Re:Dots Will Be Connected by rafabulsing on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:56AM (#34880033)
"Do your own meta-analysis"
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