If he is an outlier, then others can see if they can replicate the results, though. Yes, there is an issue with n=1, but in the past, someone had to eat the first poison berry for everyone else to know it was bad. We should have more people being 'experimental' in this manner, but I do not think anything positive will come of it.
He's not eating one poison berry though. He's eating 100 of them, which means no one can tell which berry did it. So it's not just n=1, it's throwing 100 different independent variables with no control at n=1.
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u/freebytes Jul 06 '26
If he is an outlier, then others can see if they can replicate the results, though. Yes, there is an issue with n=1, but in the past, someone had to eat the first poison berry for everyone else to know it was bad. We should have more people being 'experimental' in this manner, but I do not think anything positive will come of it.