Maybe so, but it's still useful to rigorously confirm unsurprising things. People's impressions of what's obvious can be wrong or contradictory.
Maybe so, but it's still useful to rigorously confirm unsurprising things. People's impressions of what's obvious can be wrong or contradictory.
So a study shows that men who work with a lot of women are likely to become romanticallly involved with them. That seems to me to be every bit as penetrating and startling as a study that shows that the Pacific Ocean is wet.