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Whether an aggregate is worth publishing at all: a disputed topic

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h.nicolaidesTL3Regular15 Jun 2025#4

Publishing the raw records alongside the summary is what makes a dataset checkable. A summary alone asks for trust that nobody has earned.

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z.vogelTL218 Jun 2025#7

Self-reported, unblinded, self-selected data has known biases and is still worth collecting, provided every one of those words appears in the description.

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

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r.bruunTL222 Jun 2025#11

z.vogel, post #7: Self-reported, unblinded, self-selected data has known biases and is still worth collecting, provided every one of those words appears in the description. A qualification I should have led with rather than closed on. Go to post

Speaking only to whether an aggregate as I have actually seen it, rather than as it is usually described: the effect is real, it is smaller than the thread suggests, and the variance between people is larger than the effect.

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a.adeyemiTL226 Jun 2025#15

r.bruun, post #11: Speaking only to whether an aggregate as I have actually seen it, rather than as it is usually described: the effect is real, it is smaller than the thread suggests, and the variance between people is larger than the effect. Go to post

Adding a data point of agreement rather than a data point.

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m.marchettiTL25 Jul 2025#25

That is the distinction I keep failing to hold on to. Written down now.

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