Unfortunately, this is science too.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Big respect to researchers who publish and share statistically insignificant results.

  Instead of doing what is far too common in science, manipulating the data until you find “significance” through twisted interpretations.

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  • prex@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    xkcd.com/882/

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    • Probius@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Is it valid science if you re-test the one that had the link to see if it was a fluke?

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Biology papers and Photoshop, name a more iconic duo.

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• chonomaiwokurae@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Proving that something doesn’t work can be valuable data, too. Especially in research close to industrial interests… celebrate failures!

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  • drre@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    well yeah, but there is money in knowing what to avoid. in academia it’s more like “why can’t i reproduce this effect i read about in this fancy paper, am i stupid or what”, when maybe, they just got lucky, or had plenty of very reasonable analysis options to choose from, or simply fudged the numbers. i fear that in much of academia there is a huge incentive to publish at whatever cost

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Make sure you publish that shit somehow so the next person doesn’t waste their time on the same experiment.

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• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Null results are still results!

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• conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I remember listening to an episode of TWiV where they bemoaned that more negative results weren’t published. They’re useful, too, just not nearly as cool and flashy as positive results.

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• peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory

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• DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I didn’t know Richard Stallman did research.

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Actually, this is Stannis Baratheon from The Witcher.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol I love this

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• miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Give me six lines of data harvested from the most honourable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.”

  – Pileated Woodpecker Richdude

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