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Re:California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got ... by mrguyorama on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:12PM (#36910892)
>I had to carefully word my request around all these conclusions.

Aren't you clearly saying you already had a desired outcome and were just fishing for the data to confirm it? I mean, I wouldn't give you any data in that case either. It's a strong signal that you are motivated by something other than what the data shows.

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Re:California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got ... by Dylan16807 on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:23PM (#36911060)
"I wanted to show X" sounds like a normal hypothesis to me.

What's wrong with how they want to use the data? Sort the questions, run the algorithm, see how well the scores match the real scores.

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