Re:How Caffeine Can Cramp Creativity (2013)
by learnstats2 on Monday November 10, 2014 @07:06PM
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Present-day science is driven by placebo-controlled research.
Your "need to be able to say" can have no effective equivalent placebo, and any conclusion you drew from such a case study would be unpublishable and invalid.
This is not to say that I think modern science is correct in this, but it does already recognises the flaws in what you suggest - recording accurate data is not necessarily an existing major problem of science. You can easily record all that data yourself (if you have the resources/cash/time to arrange it), which will probably work out great for you, but it won't prove anything more generally.
Your "need to be able to say" can have no effective equivalent placebo, and any conclusion you drew from such a case study would be unpublishable and invalid.
This is not to say that I think modern science is correct in this, but it does already recognises the flaws in what you suggest - recording accurate data is not necessarily an existing major problem of science. You can easily record all that data yourself (if you have the resources/cash/time to arrange it), which will probably work out great for you, but it won't prove anything more generally.