Nope. There’s already SUCH a strong selection bias in what actually got recorded and survived, and what’s important enough to publish and teach, that you can never disentangle your model from that.
Note that this is true for forecasting the future as well—the data you have and the topics you’re considering to forecast are massively constrained, to the point that you’re pretty much p-hacking by the time you write down ANY hypothesis.
Nope. There’s already SUCH a strong selection bias in what actually got recorded and survived, and what’s important enough to publish and teach, that you can never disentangle your model from that.
Note that this is true for forecasting the future as well—the data you have and the topics you’re considering to forecast are massively constrained, to the point that you’re pretty much p-hacking by the time you write down ANY hypothesis.