.. with any authority.
Instead, all its pronouncements become partial, depending on assuming the world remains the same as the world they imagine in the lab.
Certainly, statistics are used in the form of multi-variate analysis, but these have very little authority as the choice of variables to include will influence the results we come up with. So it's very easy to manipulate results, meaning they are not trustworthy, particularly when researchers have incentive to produce certain results.
Instead, all its pronouncements become partial, depending on assuming the world remains the same as the world they imagine in the lab.
Certainly, statistics are used in the form of multi-variate analysis, but these have very little authority as the choice of variables to include will influence the results we come up with. So it's very easy to manipulate results, meaning they are not trustworthy, particularly when researchers have incentive to produce certain results.
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