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Re: 30-meters vs 40-meters APRS-over-VARA Shootout Coming


 

I'm not a hot shot scientist, but I've authored peer-reviewed science and read and taught plenty of it for 40+ years.

There's always bias as science and even quality evaluation are human endeavors.

I'm not questioning your data.

I want to see Stephen's WA8LMF's data as do you.

However, by writing what you did--what you expect to see in his yet to be collected data--you have shared not only your own likely confirmation bias, but you have set the stage for every reader of your message to bring your bias to their individual interpretation of the data when it's presented along with results and conclusions derived therefrom.

Better data scientists and authoritative scientific journal editors than I have demonstrated this to be the case.

I have no problem with you celebrating your results.?

Predicting another's results based on your results sets the stage for confirmation bias among viewers and interpreters of the subsequent results and is generally avoided unless explicitly part of the null hypothesis statement of a randomized trial--not what is happening here.

Regards to you, Michael, and the list.

73 de K3FZT / Steve
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On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 10:21?AM Michael - NA7Q via <mike.ph4=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Steve, there's no bias per say. It's all based on over a year of testing and experimenting. We started testing around October of 2023 on every band day and night. By December of 2023 we had a fully established network on 40m, as nothing else compared to the reliability and coverage.
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We didn't establish our network to DX, we did it to be able to communicate and operate as we do on VHF APRS. What a success it has been! Our data doesn't lie, and it definitely isn't biased, because it's data...


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73 de K3FZT / Steve

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