I support your focus on testing confirmation bias, but I don't think that it was worth it to explicitly falsify results (for a short time), compared to saying "oh well" and repeating the process until you do legitimately get an inconvenient result on a self-experiment. You've demonstrated that you're willing to break the taboo (or injunction) of never falsifying object-level results of scientific experience, which makes all of your data less valuable.
I found this to be a good and informative post, nonetheless.
I found this to be a good and informative post, nonetheless.
Really? Are you really surprised that people are reluctant to broadcast data that doesn't fit their theory? Have you read any political blogs?
By my model, it takes a pretty unusual person to give anywhere near equal weight to confirming and disconfirming evidence. We're holding Seth Roberts to a very high standard here--one that Gwern himself has not necessarily achieved. Criticizing is easy.
This is a great example of what Frank Adamek talked about in his recent post re: lowering other people's...
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