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Gabriel S. Jacobs

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When you take measurements to see if an effect exists and you measure no effect, you report "no effect". You don't write down "well maaaybe there IS an effect and we just missed it"; you report the results you actually *get*. This is special pleading at this point. Embarrassing.

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Did you not read that extract above? Hough essentially assumed phases of the moon as the correlating factor, and nothing else. She said in the paper that her analysis was "simple tests" and on a small catalog (214 events). Cringe. Talking about embarrassing.

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