Wouldn’t defying the data more mean “I deny that X, on it’s own, is sufficient to justify Y. I’ve updated based on X, but there was plenty of reason to have really low prior belief in Y and X, on it’s own, isn’t sufficient to overcome that, although it definitely is something we should look into, replicate the experiment, see what’s going on, etc...”?
Yes, but there’s also the part about “~Y predicts ~X, so I predict a decent chance that X will turn out to not be what you thought it was.” Which is why replication is one of the proposed next steps; and is also, I think, the part that RichardKennaway pointed to as a parallel.
Wouldn’t defying the data more mean “I deny that X, on it’s own, is sufficient to justify Y. I’ve updated based on X, but there was plenty of reason to have really low prior belief in Y and X, on it’s own, isn’t sufficient to overcome that, although it definitely is something we should look into, replicate the experiment, see what’s going on, etc...”?
Yes, but there’s also the part about “~Y predicts ~X, so I predict a decent chance that X will turn out to not be what you thought it was.” Which is why replication is one of the proposed next steps; and is also, I think, the part that RichardKennaway pointed to as a parallel.