Genevieve Patenaude: In this case here, the evidence was less robust, but it doesn’t mean that local studies are always less robust. Also, less robust doesn’t mean less relevant or helpful. Many decisions must be made in contexts of large uncertainties. Many studies cannot produce robust science because of the nature of the topic studied (global predictions are often not robust). Hence any form of uncertainty reduction is helpful.
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Genevieve Patenaude: In this case here, the evidence was less robust, but it doesn’t mean that local studies are always less robust. Also, less robust doesn’t mean less relevant or helpful. Many decisions must be made in contexts of large uncertainties. Many studies cannot produce robust science because of the nature of the topic studied (global predictions are often not robust). Hence any form of uncertainty reduction is helpful.