@bthall You mean a latex debugger?
@freemo Nope: for arguments
@bthall @freemo and i'm not a statistics person 😅 so i hope i didn't go too much overboard here…
often someone will use a very very specific statistical method even tho that's not something you'd usually use for such a use-case. e.g.: it doesn't fit the "input" (number of people analysed / number of people of actually matching) so that the results you've found will still somehow fit your initial hypothesis.
hope that makes it more clearer.
@bthall @freemo all the while your base is PDF… (see my PDF rant here https://glitch.social/@meena/100323982141295477 lol)
@meena It isn't that PDF is the wrong solution to the problem, it's that it's a bad solution to the problem, a very, very bad solution with many better, alternative solutions.
@bthall as one of the people in the thread mentions, pdf has rich metadata. unfortunately many people (or tools) don't use it
@freemo @meena Yes, but especially in a way that allows for effectively parsing and appraising a work