Then why use that standard? If you know that academia doesn’t deliever on it’s promise of relication and accountability there no reason to use those reasons to trust academia.
Binary thinking here. Being not-perfect at something doesn’t mean you’re worse than the alternatives.
For example, I think medical and health science is of quite poor quality compared to where it could be, but that doesn’t mean I go to a naturopath instead of an MD.
The OkCupid numbers are based on a high quantity dataset that has the quality of being real world data.
So they say.
Read my comments in the light that I thought the original comment was doing something along these lines:
Claim there’s all sorts of “easily findable” scientific studies as if he barely needs to provide any evidence.
Out of all these easily findable studies, the one he chooses to demonstrate his point is not a great example when compared to the (apparently fictional) world of lots of scientific research into the matter.
(As I previously stated, I’m no longer sure if that’s what he’s now claiming.)
I also don’t claim that the OkCupid numbers are worthless. I claim that if you want to demonstrate that there’s lots of scientific studies on a matter, you don’t pick the example he picked.
Binary thinking here. Being not-perfect at something doesn’t mean you’re worse than the alternatives.
Any single source should be judged on it’s own merits.
For example, I think medical and health science is of quite poor quality compared to where it could be, but that doesn’t mean I go to a naturopath instead of an MD.
But we are not talking about a naturopath but about a data driven business.
I claim that if your claim is that there are multiple cite-worthy studies that are easily findable, your first choice of an example shouldn’t be a non-scientific source as evidence that there are multiple cite-worthy studies that are easily findable.
Furthermore, I take it as obvious that where there isn’t a lot of high quality, cite-worthy studies out there, that the source he provided is a fine source to use. After all, we have to use the data that we have and assign appropriate confidence to it.
But we are not talking about a naturopath but about a data driven business.
I wasn’t intending to imply that the quality distance between a data driven business and whatever the current state of scientific studies is the same as the quality distance between a naturopath and an MD.
I was stating that in the universe where there are multiple easily findable cite-worthy studies, a blog post using OkCupid data was below a cite-worthy study in the same manner a naturopath is below an MD.
Binary thinking here. Being not-perfect at something doesn’t mean you’re worse than the alternatives.
For example, I think medical and health science is of quite poor quality compared to where it could be, but that doesn’t mean I go to a naturopath instead of an MD.
So they say.
Read my comments in the light that I thought the original comment was doing something along these lines:
Claim there’s all sorts of “easily findable” scientific studies as if he barely needs to provide any evidence.
Out of all these easily findable studies, the one he chooses to demonstrate his point is not a great example when compared to the (apparently fictional) world of lots of scientific research into the matter.
(As I previously stated, I’m no longer sure if that’s what he’s now claiming.)
I also don’t claim that the OkCupid numbers are worthless. I claim that if you want to demonstrate that there’s lots of scientific studies on a matter, you don’t pick the example he picked.
Any single source should be judged on it’s own merits.
But we are not talking about a naturopath but about a data driven business.
I’m no longer sure what you’re arguing for.
I claim that if your claim is that there are multiple cite-worthy studies that are easily findable, your first choice of an example shouldn’t be a non-scientific source as evidence that there are multiple cite-worthy studies that are easily findable.
Furthermore, I take it as obvious that where there isn’t a lot of high quality, cite-worthy studies out there, that the source he provided is a fine source to use. After all, we have to use the data that we have and assign appropriate confidence to it.
I wasn’t intending to imply that the quality distance between a data driven business and whatever the current state of scientific studies is the same as the quality distance between a naturopath and an MD.
I was stating that in the universe where there are multiple easily findable cite-worthy studies, a blog post using OkCupid data was below a cite-worthy study in the same manner a naturopath is below an MD.