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Books and papers worth reading that are not about this at all
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The thing about books and papers that took me longest to accept is that a plausible mechanism is not evidence of an effect. It is a reason to look, not a result.
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Following this. I have the same question and no better information than the first post.
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What I would check first on books and papers is whether the thing being measured moved or whether the way of measuring it moved. Those look identical in a graph.
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Two sentences on books and papers and then I will stop, because the rest is speculation and the thread is better without mine.
What is documented is narrow. What is inferred from it is broad. The gap between them is where every argument here lives.
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