True, but we'd still like scientists to grow a backbone and say "the trials show it doesn't work" not "there is insufficient evidence to recommend it".
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By using your first phrase you are being absolute about the results and that is very rare. The way the statistics work is that you take a sample and it is hopefully representative. There is a reducing chance that you have selected all of the failures. Hence the couching.
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If I have two nav systems in my car. One is right 55% of the time. I will always be uncertain which one is correct. But I'm never uncertain which one to to use, unless I get new data. That's the kind of certainty I want from scientists.
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