• ivanafterall@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Random online scientist here to tell you: this study has deep flaws. Among them, the way it was conducted and its outcomes. This is for various technical reasons you wouldn’t really understand.

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      9 months ago

      As a random commenter, clearly the sample size is too small and they mixed up correlation and causation

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        9 months ago

        The contribution to the community is weak. I recommend the authors to work on their study design and to basically redo everything in good.

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    Mac : This is Aristotle. Thought to be the smartest man on the planet. He believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and everybody believed him because he was so smart. Until another smartest guy came around, Galileo, and he disproved that theory making Aristotle and everybody else on earth look like a

    [slaps sticker on board]

    Mac : BITCH! 'Course Galileo then thought that comets were an optical illusion and there’s no way that the moon could cause the ocean’s tides. Everybody believed that because he was so smart. He was also wrong. Making him and everyone else on Earth

    [slaps another sticker on board]

    Mac : look like a bitch again. And then, best of all, Sir Issac Newton gets born and blows everybody’s nips off with his brains. 'Course he also thought he could turn metal into gold and died eating mercury making him yet another stupid

    [slaps 3rd sticker on board]

    Mac : BITCH! Are you seeing a pattern?

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    9 months ago

    Recently the headlines have actually been way more “study finds something super obvious to be true that most of society took as truth without needing a study. They just lived it in their every day life”

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    9 months ago

    Next study: overturns results of previous study, under different conditions.

    Next study: reaffirms results of first study, and finds that the authors of the second study are dumbasses.

    Next study: no u r, but what am I?

    Fortunately, despite being done by flawed human beings, science usually manages to finds its way to Truth in the end regardless, it’s really quite astonishing how well that works.

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    “I already knew that, did we even need a study for this?”

    • Someone who accidentally stumbled upon a post in a science community and doesn’t get science.