On: Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be suc...

[johnfn]

That would be me. I liked it because it gave easy to understand and evidence-backed steps to improve your life.

I see a bunch of posts and comments on HN where the poster postulates (without any research or backing) some hypothesis about how to improve your life. These inevitably get hundreds of upvotes and never get questioned, even though n=1 is practically meaningless.

This is the complete opposite. Every step on here is discrete, concrete and backed by study. What more do you want, exactly? And how come no one ever calls out the n=1 case, but everyone is calling out this? What exactly is the difference?

[askafriend → johnfn]

> And how come no one ever calls out the n=1 case, but everyone is calling out this? What exactly is the difference?

The difference is in making a claim and recounting a personal experience. The two have entirely different bars for acceptance.

[johnfn → askafriend]

I would argue that in the amount of credence people place on each account, there is very little difference.