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To your first point, look to the other comments, which clarify this beyond what I was aware of. To your second point, yes you are correct; I didn't feel like getting into that was …

If you do go on, I'll happily link to it in the article. There's no way I could have done everything, but I could have done a better job nodding to what's missing.

I'm an academic historian, you're lucky this wasn't book-length.

That's fascinating. I'm the author of the piece, and the material trick and its ramifications is new to me, thank you! This entire subject is not my area of expertise - I'm an hist…

Hey, not the OP but the original author here! I was wondering why my server was going crazy; should've known it was HN. If you have issues, the page is already scraped into the Int…

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If you define science as anything that's falsifiable, then of course anything that isn't, isn't science. And hey, free sciencecountry, that's your prerogative. That said, the philo…

Pron, as a historian who has come up with quantitative models and resisted the urge to call them predictive, yes, I think that sort of restraint is within humanit(y|ie)'s capable g…

This ain't actually how science works, it's just an idealized account. Special relativity wasn't technically falsifiable compared to its competing theory by Lorentz, because both p…

This is true, but not entirely relevant. Life-based complex systems often share a propensity for punctuated stability specifically due to their own nature, because of the same circ…

My stance is much softer than that, but I should have made it clearer, because similar arguments are often made in anti-frequentist rants. I think that there is an appropriate plac…

I agree, lying is bad regardless! My post isn't anti p-values, it's anti poorly-understood-or-performed-statistics. NHST just happens to be the subject of choice, because it's part…