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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.’
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.
That’s easy! We call that Garbage In Garbage Out!
The one I see the most is:
“We avoided any semblance of rational experimental design and got significant results.”
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
If all else fails, use “significant at a p>0.05 level” and hope no one notices.
source: xkcd
There is also “We did nothing of value”
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.
No I meant wasting time with useless stuff
I’m afraid tree mapping isn’t yet in it
It is. But it groups trees that are next to each other. You can add a single tree in the “Things” overlay
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Created by a DEPTH-FIRST TREE SEARCHER
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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”
We applied a map of every tree to a set of all possible sets we’re waiting on the results