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by sjs 6011 days ago
There are a dozen reasons the data would be bogus but I only need to state the most obvious: you can't use the same person in 2 comparable tests because the tasks would be either too trivial or too similar; likewise you cannot use different people in groups for the tests because people are too different.

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