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by beanerboi22 2239 days ago
This post is essentially saying don't even try to comment in an intelligent formal tone, citing sources, etc, on things you don't have a credential for. A surprisingly large number of fields are just applied statistics/probability with some minor domain knowledge tossed in. So people who are familiar with statistical methods can comment on things like this very fast. Further, that guy was explicitly citing people from the field to make his argument, not making some outlandish claim without backing it up.

In this post there is literally nothing about the actual content of what the other person was saying. There is nothing here about what citations they maybe were using incorrectly or misunderstanding.

There is nothing here saying what statistical tools they might have been accidentally abusing. There is nothing here! I'll speak for myself and say I'll judge ideas on their own merits not some empty credentialist garbage.