«First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement, so I must do nothin’. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the Pirate’s Code to apply, and you’re not. And thirdly, the Code is more what you’d call ‹guidelines› than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner.» Barbossa in «Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl» There are lots of situations in which an established standard is used, despite better methods being available. Even during my studies, people reported “tried and true” (tried, yes, true, not really) methods instead of better ones, because the ones who did judge the product’s quality (in this case: reviewers of major journals) were expecting the “established” methods. But yeah, for me it was t-tests and ANOVAs when superior methods were available, for others it’s an established questionnaire that has to be used without any changes — because the reviewers expect it. In other areas (perhaps for you), it’s another obsolete measures of quality the customers expect. Or perhaps everyone just expected them to be expected, it might be a “emperors new clothes” situation here. That would almost be a best case. Except, how [...]
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