Re: Freezing Coffee Used for Espresso; a Randomized Trial

On Mar 12, 3:41 pm, Neal Reid <NealR...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just to ensure I understand - are you saying that, given no
baseline, the 'marks' you assigned were quite good?

IIRC there were a couple of "B-"s, which I take your above
responses to be pretty darn good all things considered.

So if your original reply had said, "blahl blah Control blah B-
where most experiments get C", would a small flurry have been
avoided?

Where I failed was in helping people to understand that precise
control of extraneous/confounding variables in a study like this is
impossible, though Dr. Fox and Dr. Schulman certainly tried.

Dr. Fox, quite erroneously, took my observation as a personal
criticism and was affronted by it.

I was criticized, also, for failing to identify these gentlemen with
their appropriate academic credentials.

As to the statistical limitations of their study, I've either made my
point or I haven't. Let us move on.

.

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