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by random314 1156 days ago
I think op is talking about bias vs variance. In some cases we have a bias variance trade off.
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Yep, and I'm talking about hypothesis testing which is what's being done in the paper.
Hypothesis testing cannot rule out systemic bias errors present in both control and treatment populations.
Are you pontificating about systemic bias or is this a specific critique of the techniques used to simultaneously detect the upper and lower doublets in a single shot of the experiment?
I am trying to explain to you what moron4hire is talking about. Hypothesis testing doesn't magically fix the issue he is discussing, as hypothesis testing works by collecting many imprecise measurements to average it out to a more precise level.