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I think what the parent means is that a motivated experiment designer can (even accidentally) create an experiment that has a high false-positive rate, thus providing very little Bayesian evidence given a positive result. Ideally, you'd have the experiment designed by someone who actually wanted to falsify the hypothesis (or at least a neutral party), such that the non-null conclusion, if arrived at, would be really strong Bayesian evidence.



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