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by ajuc 1115 days ago
It's possible that no new information is needed, just better analysis.
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That's not how science works though. You generate a hypothesis about how something works, and then you execute an experiment that's designed to directly test the hypothesis as much as possible. If we had to just rely on slicing existing data, we wouldn't get very far. You can find data to confirm or deny about anything. Predicting the results before the experiment, and then confirming it works out that way is the much harder, and more valuable, part.