The Three Kinds of Scientific Research

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• TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can’t have 1st and 2nd without the 3rd kind

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  • azi@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think the comic is about types of published articles with the 3rd being “we collated and collected a bunch of data to make this database that other researchers will find useful”-type papers. So you don’t need to rely on the map of every tree if you just map some trees yourself.

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why though?

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do you make theories without observation?

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like the way it kinda works regardless of if the punchline is about biological or computer science trees

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  • azi@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget ethnographers and the surname Tree

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• paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The map from the third is the “circumstances” of the first two.

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