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by vatican_banker 1850 days ago
> It's a mistake to apply vanilla statistical thinking here. The 12 participants [...] were extremely skewed towards enthusiasts/professionals

It is still undetermined if having 12 highly-skilled professionals in the experiment is enough to have a conclusive experiment.

Also, this subject is so difficult to get right that the authors of the article themselves hedged by saying that experiment "does not support watertight conclusions".