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MJayawardenaTL3Regular11 Sep 2025 · edited#151

Aggregating first-hand accounts does not produce evidence of the kind a trial produces. It produces a description of who chose to post, which is a real thing and a different thing.

A qualification I should have led with rather than closed on.

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n.zielinskiTL211 Sep 2025#152

Leiterman, post #29: I would put moderate confidence on the mainstream reading of Aggregated purity results across four and no more. That is not scepticism for its own sake; it is where the sourcing actually stops. Go to post

Picking up post #151: that is the part I would want checked first.

Practical answer on Aggregated purity results across four, since the theoretical one is upthread: do the simplest check first, write down the result, and only then decide whether the complicated explanation is needed. It usually is not.

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