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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'
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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'
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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 62 pts · 1y
Then there’s also the flat-earther style: “We applied a flawed model and flawed methodology to standard circumstances and got the results we wanted!”
I guess we need a new comic to address all the different kinds of pseudo-science.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
That's easy! We call that Garbage In Garbage Out!
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 56 pts · 1y
What about 'we applied a standard theory to standard circumstances and somehow the results aren't right and it's probably our fault'
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 1y
Business as usual, just another day at the lab. People using actual real world samples instead of the expensive standards to produce a very messy calibration squiggle. Also, the machine probably requires some maintenance from time to time.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Should just assume a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum for simplicity's sake 🤷
palordrolap@fedia.io · 12 pts · 1y
Oddly enough, the lack of air pressure in a vacuum would have the effect of trying to turn a regular cow into a sphere.
(Do not do this. Not even if the cow is already dead. Thanks.)
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Dammit, there goes my weekend! Oh well, guess I can still just eat that dead cow that's been taking up space in the lab 🤷
Cryophilia@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” but “That’s funny …”
dave@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 1y
trolololol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
My favorite is the one on fire
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
Not to be confused with "is it supposed to be making a noise", which is usually pretty bad
The_v@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
The one I see the most is:
"We avoided any semblance of rational experimental design and got significant results."
Agent641@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
We were awarded grant money from a corporation and got results that are favourable to them but require further grants to really boost that evidence up a notch, wink wink
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
If all else fails, use "significant at a p>0.05 level" and hope no one notices.
source: xkcd
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 15 pts · 1y
There is also "We did nothing of value"
Agret@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Aka "we applied a standard theory to standard circumstances and got the expected result" - one can argue it does help in a way by providing another dataset although it didn't really accomplish anything it can be useful for student research projects in that field.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 1y
No I meant wasting time with useless stuff
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 12 pts · 1y
Help us map all the trees
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
App also available on F-Droid.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 1y
I'm afraid tree mapping isn't yet in it
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 1y
It is. But it groups trees that are next to each other. You can add a single tree in the "Things" overlay
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Content notice on explainxkcd:
😄
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Don't forget "these are novel circumstances and so we attempted something, but really the circumstances are so novel that just documenting them is pretty neat"
metaStatic@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 1y
We applied a map of every tree to a set of all possible sets we're waiting on the results