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lemmyman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When scientists come up with the hypothesis and antihypothesis for an experiment, are they usually orthogonal so its easier to form a range of effect for whatever cause or correlation is at subject?5·20 days agoHypothesis testing is not of the form “what causes this?” What you’re suggesting seems to be along those lines.
Instead it’s more “can we say with high confidence that this specific factor causes this?”
That doesn’t mean you can’t test other factors! You can test them all with enough time and resources.
There are multi-factor statistical tools like ANOVA. But they still depend on you identifying what the factors might be.
But if you have factors A, B, C, and D in your analysis, and it’s actually the totally unknown factor E… you might find a lot of unexplained variance in your statistics, or you might mislead yourself into thinking it’s ABCD and never discover what E actually was.
But at the end of the day that’s just a fancier form of “does this specific thing cause this effect.”
And the essence of science is discovering Factor E and testing it, with new hypotheses.
Boil water advisories are often immediate - like a check valve has failed unexpectedly and there is, this very instant, a risk if sewage in your tap water.
Hard to mobilize a city-wide door-to-door campaign with such urgency.
As a secondary option, sure. But it’s not always like a planned-for-months water main replacement.
The four channels OP listed do seem inadequate though.
Try being married for 15 years
lemmyman@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I know they're the minority of users, but are they ever *not* on? (crosspost)4·1 month agoI feel like this topic is maybe above lemmyshitpost’s pay grade
lemmyman@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I know they're the minority of users, but are they ever *not* on? (crosspost)61·1 month agoPlease see the meme above
For me, second ask is a review with the lowest score
Did they? I read the whole article (agonizing) and it seemed like they simply avoided using any pronouns at all for Batman.
lemmyman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What’s a small thing you do every day that makes life noticeably better?4·1 month agoMy immediate emotional reaction is usually some degree of “have you misplaced your brain?” So it’s good to pause.
Same reason I have a 3 minute delay for outgoing emails.
It’s their marinating fridge
The right facial expressions will turn it into a contest they can’t resist
I definitely ate the clickhole here
lemmyman@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is the Staten Island of Paris?51·2 months agoParis
Did those koroks just insult me
We need to do way instain mother
Modern problems call for modern koans
Why yes, thank you
This changes everything