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Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Is the Base Factor a Hundred?

If the p values are really small, a that should tilt you a little bit more towards believing it. Or maybe that actuly could be evidnced that they kind of did some funny tricks to get it right below p equles point o five. The number of hypotheses possible is so insanely large, there's no way in your lifetime you'll ever consider even a tiny fraction of all the hypotheses. So a paper can raise a hypothesis to attention that you would never have thought about before,. And then you constuct to consider, do i think that'm true? Maybe you can gill gather other evidence about whether it's true or not.

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