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Originally Posted by highlander
I have to address a pet peeve here: anecdotal evidence. Stating a random example doesn't prove or disprove anything.
Has anyone actually performed a statistical test on how wooden robots perform vs how metal robots do? I don't know or suspect an answer, it just would be interesting to know.
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Anecdotal evidence does prove that something is
possible.
Statistical evidence can only prove a correlation. It cannot prove causation. Therefore there could be statistical evidence that wood robots perform better than metal robots, but the evidence could not show that robots perform better because they are made out of wood. For all we know wood robots could perform better because they are made by better teams.