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by JoeAltmaier 2691 days ago
What people complain about is maybe not the important thing. Its getting actionable results.

And what about the 'Have you quit beating your wife' part? Where I don't lie on any part of the spectrum they've drawn. Ok, that's the same with thumbs-up-or-down, but with the spectrum its in your face that you have no answer that's meaningful. I refuse to answer those kind far more often that thumbs-up.

Finally, mega-corporations wanting actionable results are not 'brushing aside with anecdotal experience'. That's the point I made. They're spending billions and want results, and more often use thumbs-up-or-down. That trial has five orders of magnitude more data than all the graduate students in history added together.