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geraneum • yesterday at 8:41 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you want to refute a study which presents numbers and statistics, you have to provide it in the form of numbers and statistics.


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nilkn • yesterday at 9:01 PM

I don't, actually. I can simply point out that its data is out of date, and then the numbers themselves are called into question without other numbers to compare them to. And that's what I did: I shared two arguments in two comments that converge on the shared conclusion that the paper's data is not up to date (or, more precisely, cannot be up to date).

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