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Kid's going places (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Poor experiment. He didn't find out what pollen allergies the plant might have had.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? He already tested the three most common allergens: pepper, being ticked by a feather, and feet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Me squinting hard trying to see if those are more common as allergens or as fetishes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This is a good candidate for a venn diagram.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*Funding needed to carry out such effort.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

With this sort of talent, the kid is sure to get a grant.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not college, but places.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Good enough science to be a YouTube influencer.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't this a joke from Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Huh, that photo even appears on the webpage

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If I read it, will I understand why "feet" is in the sneeze-causing list?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I read it as a joke of increasing absurdity. Sniffing pepper makes people sneeze so that one works (besides the trying to make a plant sneeze part). He got a bit distracted by experiment 2 and mixed up the involuntary reactions sneezing and tickling and tries to tickle it with a feather. He then gets further distracted between experiment 2 and 3, and tests feet which are commonly ticklish.

When I break it down like this you can see that it is a very funny joke, as one can always tell from a detailed explanation of the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The smell?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I also don't get it. Not everything that smells causes you to sneeze. None of the methods actually make sense. A feather tickles you, not makes you sneeze. And the pepper? The experiment is invalid. Did not disprove the hypothesis, needs more testing.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Wait till OP finds out this was not done by a kid but a full grown man.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Glad the kid didn't p-hack the experiment 👍

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Ground breaking research. Disagree? Show me the study before this where they determined plants don't sneeze

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

The plant on the right has clearly sneezed

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kid's *probably going places.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That would be the hypothesis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Conclusion: Kid didn’t go places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Experiment: This shitty poster.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Looks like an N value of 1 though. Hopefully results are replicable. I'll wait for the meta-analysis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The tragedy is that studies like this still get funding over actually relevant research.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Damn, all those like ... 10$ that could have been used somewhere else

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something tells me that you don't work in science. The process for getting science funding isn't simple and weeds out useless studies pretty quickly. On average, calls for proposals have about a 15% success rate. So, 15 in every 100 proposals get funded. They are funded after being vetted for usefulness, feasibility, novelty, cost, and other factors.

Since studies are well-vetted before getting funded, studies that sound like they're simple or useless based on headlines normally make a lot of sense when you read the research results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Some of the odd studies were simply cheap, and are, in fact useless

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Copying from a mediocre children's book(diary of a wimpy kid)? No, they aren't going far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's either too pixelated for me or a weird pepper shaker.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Looks like "Martian Shakers". Though they must have a special edition, because the ones I found have blue eyes

Found them for $7.99 here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh nice for sharing the info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I used to have the non-shaker version of that.

It was much more fun to play with and far less messy if you did.