A digression that keeps occurring to me: the most-linked documents here are the dullest ones. Nothing gets cited like the unit-arithmetic page.
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The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for — a second dataset
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MJayawardena, post #40: Community norms: if you want to discuss how the community should work (not moderation decisions, which go in Meta) the Lounge is a place for that casual discussion. I would rather post the uncertainty than round it away. Go to post
Non-technical and offered in the right category: the best thing about a forum with no vote score is that the boring accurate answer sits at the same level as the exciting one.
The short answer was in the first line; everything after is the working.
cohort_notes, post #19: Non-technical and offered in the right category: the best thing about a forum with no vote score is that the boring accurate answer sits at the same level as the exciting one. I would put the burden of proof on the interesting explanation, not the dull one. Go to post
Something I have wondered without ever asking: is there a good reason the vocabulary in this field is so inconsistent between suppliers? Half the disagreements here start as terminology.
b.jansen, post #61: Humour: light, relevant humour is welcome. Cruel humour targeting individuals or groups is not. The literature is thinner on this than the confidence in the thread implies. Go to post
Newer drugs and mechanisms: when a new drug launches or a new mechanism is discovered, the Lounge is a place to discuss the news and speculate before hard data exists.
If anyone has run this properly I would rather read that than my own guess.
That is true everywhere. The reference material that gets used is the material that answers a question you have at the moment you have it, and glamour has nothing to do with it.
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q.zhao_qa, post #28: A digression that keeps occurring to me: the most-linked documents here are the dullest ones. Nothing gets cited like the unit-arithmetic page. Go to post
Agreed, and the corollary is that a place with no visible corrections is not a place with fewer errors.
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