Comment on Replication crisis, my arse
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fun fact: This is not actually much different from the process of testing which foods trigger your IBS after keeping the low FODMAPs diet, wherein you initially remove all possible triggers and then test one by one to see which ones you have specifically.
No, it’s very different.
When you have multiple allergies/intolerances, starting at zero and then adding one thing at a time is a lot more efficient than removing one thing at a time.
Removing one thing at a time will create many false negatives, where you remove a hit but don’t notice because you left another hit behind.
That’s not binary search.
Correct. I didn’t reply to the binary search post.
This is me. Turns out basically everything gives me dhiarrea.
Is your username inspired by this?
It is indeed!
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I feel like a binary search method would work too
groet@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
A Binary search requires a ordered data set. Something like "if you react to X, you will also react to any X+1, X+2… X+n. Food is not ordered, you cant know if you react badly to bell peper because you reacted badly to whole grain wheat.
veleth@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Not necessarily, but searching a data set that’s not ordered relies on an assumption that there’s a single thing you’re looking for.
If there are 10 ingredients, you get sick and you only take half next time, you need to be able to assume that there’s one set that doesn’t get you sick and one that does, and so on until you get down to the last one.
It’s a good way to e.g. quickly find the right breaker in the box, because for each device/ socket there’s just one breaker that’s responsible, so flipping half of them gives you an actionable result