Yeah, you confirmed that you& #39;re reading a massive strawman into what I& #39;m saying. You& #39;re taking it about 10 steps past my observation and assuming my observation assume the endpoint rather than the starting point. To give an example, a couple tweets back.... https://twitter.com/justinquinnn/status/1386383265922232324">https://twitter.com/justinqui...

2/...you wrote, "...so you test to see how your hypothesis is wrong before you can say it is the best explanation." Of course you do (again, you& #39;re preaching to the choir). But I never said anything about the hypothesis being the best explanation, ...

3/...I was only referring to the step prior to that where you formed the hypothesis in the first place. Everything you talked about comes subsequent to that -- which again, I agree with.

4/ Also with your "But is it a statistically significant one?" Yeah, that& #39;s important to know. But you don& #39;t test for statistical significance of a hypothesis before you have a hypothesis in the first place.