I don’t think that whether it worth investigating further depends on how well that area is figured out.
I woudl give that if I am interested in an area I would probably be interested in both X->Y and not(X->Y). But random facts are not enough for me to spend thaaat much effort ot figure them out. LIke if a random person makes a claim on a street corner I would not build a million dollar machine to test that out or apply for a grant to build one. I would need to have an independent reason to care or have it be beneficiary of general curiosity.
I am also more likely to spend effort in areas that I find “important” or “interesting”. There is the fact that if there is a detailed description how a experiment is carried out I mostly take peoples word that they did it or suspect that their error is close to the level of description they are providing. But I don’t actually personally verify any significant amount of things. I don’t naturally measure zeroes and you kinda need to motivate me to unnaturally do so with money or theorycrafting.
I don’t think that whether it worth investigating further depends on how well that area is figured out.
I woudl give that if I am interested in an area I would probably be interested in both X->Y and not(X->Y). But random facts are not enough for me to spend thaaat much effort ot figure them out. LIke if a random person makes a claim on a street corner I would not build a million dollar machine to test that out or apply for a grant to build one. I would need to have an independent reason to care or have it be beneficiary of general curiosity.
I am also more likely to spend effort in areas that I find “important” or “interesting”. There is the fact that if there is a detailed description how a experiment is carried out I mostly take peoples word that they did it or suspect that their error is close to the level of description they are providing. But I don’t actually personally verify any significant amount of things. I don’t naturally measure zeroes and you kinda need to motivate me to unnaturally do so with money or theorycrafting.