Not statistically significant, but still scientific
Rachael L. Brown · 2017 · Animal Sentience
WASTE classifies this as Negative / Null Result Report · AI classification, approximate
The study found no significant effect — useful as a negative control or null benchmark for your own design.
Abstract (excerpt)
Birch’s formulation is persuasive but not nuanced enough to capture at least one situation where it is reasonable to invoke the precautionary principle (PP): when we have multiple, weak, but convergent, lines of evidence that a species is…
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.51291/2377-7478.1247