No I didn’t estimate the effect myself. I don’t think that’s a reasonable bar for commenting in this context. I also doubt it would make a difference if I had, since as a non-expert, my opinion of any given study’s methods is probably not going to convince anyone.
No I didn’t estimate the effect myself. I don’t think that’s a reasonable bar for commenting in this context. I also doubt it would make a difference if I had, since as a non-expert, my opinion of any given study’s methods is probably not going to convince anyone.
I tend to think social science is untrustworthy, so if you haven’t double-checked their methods yourself you should probably assume they are wrong.
But would you trust the methods if I had checked, or would you still want to check it yourself?
If you had checked, that would be a filter, which would make it more worth paying attention to and maybe checking myself.