Can reading assholes be considered science?

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• Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not any more than palm reading is a science (it’s not.) It could be considered an art I suppose, but science needs to be things that can be tested and produce repeatable results.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not any more than palm reading is a science

    Well… stick with me here, this is just a devil’s advocate hypothetical.

    Your hands are your primary method of interacting with the world. The creases, callouses, and other incidental features are reflections of the ways you most frequently use them.

    Obviously you can’t divine the future, but you can gather information about a person. I dare say you could devise experiments to detect correlations between certain features of the hands, and features of the person: their profession, hobbies, grooming habits, clumsiness, etc.

    I think a sincere scientific study could identify several hand features with moderately predictive correlations.

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    • Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re right in that you could learn about someone based on their hands. It’s the subjective nature of the predictions that make palm reading unscientific. There have been studies to show that certain health issues manifest in our skin. Palm reading isn’t focused solely on those issues though. It tries to predict all kinds of things (wealth, relationships, misfortune, etc.) How would you create a control group for a study like that?

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If me and 5 friends read your a-hole, I bet all of us would come to the same conclusion.

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    • Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That would be like one research team coming to a single conclusion. Still wouldn’t make it scientific.

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• Lembot_0004@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Science” has a rather strict “scientific” definition. Predictability, repeatability, etc. I don’t remember details.

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• alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mighty Shai-hulud!

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Image

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It depends on whether the asshole has a title of Professor.

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• 58008@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can tell by the flavour that a new love interest will come into your life imminently.

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• Hackworth@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’t you just read X instead?

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It can be considered pseudoscience.

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  • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some people would. You know, for science.

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• TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m a reading asshole, am I a science?

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Taking advantage of the best daring lip sensitivity to investigate with anomancy the boss, getting ascending to the employee of the month.

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are haemorrhoids considered a bad omen…?

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• Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Isn’t that what Sylvester Stallone’s mom did for a living?

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