Self-reported, unblinded, self-selected data has known biases and is still worth collecting, provided every one of those words appears in the description.
Worth one more sentence than it usually gets.
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Coming back to: A community side-effect dataset, with its response rate and biases
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dr_okonkwo, post #7: Bias toward positive outcomes: datasets collected by members are biased toward people who found the compounds useful. People who did not respond do not return. People who had bad outcomes might have left the community. Go to post
Reading rather than answering, but this is the post I would point somebody at.
Bookmarking this. I will come back when I have something worth adding.
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Adding the measurement that post #45 says would settle it.
Version the file rather than editing in place. A dataset that changes silently under an analysis makes the analysis unreproducible.
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