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Jan 3, 2023 at 10:30 comment added Patrick Stevens (From the first few paragraphs of skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1024/56204, I infer that the correct course of action is to write this up somewhere else, and then link to it in a comment on the original question. It's certainly important to note when someone has completely misunderstood something in a way that invalidates the background assumptions of the question, but it's not actually relevant to an answer.)
Jan 3, 2023 at 1:16 comment added cbeleites @Oddthinking: you'd be right in saying this does not answer the question. Thus, feel free to downvote and/or delete as you like. It is theoretical and purely logical, yes. It is not conjecture, though, in pointing out that the question and several comments draw an implication that is logically flawed, the fallacy stemming from misunderstanding/misinterpreting a correctly used technical term. If you have any constructive suggestions how/where to put clarifications, I'm all ears.
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Jan 3, 2023 at 0:00 history notice added Oddthinking Theoretical Answer
Jan 3, 2023 at 0:00 comment added Oddthinking This is a wonderful conjecture. Now please show it is true, with empirical references.
Jan 2, 2023 at 22:51 history edited cbeleites CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jan 2, 2023 at 22:30 comment added cbeleites @PatrickStevens: thanks for helping out. I clarified the answer
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Jan 2, 2023 at 22:03 comment added Patrick Stevens An NPI is a non-pharmaceutical intervention.
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Jan 2, 2023 at 21:28 comment added Karl Knechtel Very good to have this, thank you. I am familiar with this risk compensation concept, but I didn't draw the link because I was unaware of the distinction drawn formally between "effectiveness" and "efficacy". But what do you mean by "NPI"?
Jan 2, 2023 at 21:23 history answered cbeleites CC BY-SA 4.0