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skua<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Perth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Perth</span></a>'s low-grade, LNP-promoting newspaper/real estate flyer, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheWestAustralian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheWestAustralian</span></a> had the below.</p><p>Suspecting genAI.<br>No journalist name, no researcher name, speaks of increase but shows no older figures. And the following ridiculousness?</p><p>"More than a third (34 per cent) reported a decline in their desire to work in science."</p><p>Yuckie, kinda like dried chook droppings.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEMEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEMEducation</span></a> looks like it needs to include training in how to respond to bullying and harassment.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a></p>
Michael Vera<p>I'm claiming Unification, not Perfection:</p><p><a href="https://www.michaelvera.org/Unified_Theory_of_Energy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">michaelvera.org/Unified_Theory</span><span class="invisible">_of_Energy.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/theoreticalphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theoreticalphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/unifiedtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unifiedtheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/quantumphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantumphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/futureofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>futureofscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>einstein</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/newphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrophysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cosmology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/particlephysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>particlephysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/fundamentalphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fundamentalphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/scienceexploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scienceexploration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/unification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/gravitationaltheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gravitationaltheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/electromagnetism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electromagnetism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/thermodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thermodynamics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/matter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>matter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/sciencematters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencematters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/scienceisawesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scienceisawesome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/nextgenphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextgenphysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/physicslover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicslover</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/physicscommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicscommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/energytheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energytheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.michaelvera.org/tags/unified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unified</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations has moved!<p>A quotation from Taleb, Nassim Nicholas:</p><p>«<br>Knowledge is subtractive, not additive — what we subtract (reduction by what does not work, what not to do), not what we add (what to do).<br>»</p><p>Full quote, sourcing, notes: <br><a href="https://wist.info/taleb-nassim-nicholas/74121/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola</span><span class="invisible">s/74121/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledge</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meaning</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a></p>
Linh Pham<p>Maybe straws sticking out of one's head with people drinking from them might just be better than aliens poking and prodding using sticks sticking out of one's head?</p><p>Maybe?!?</p><p><a href="https://linh.social/tags/StarTrekVoyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrekVoyager</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/StarTrekTNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrekTNG</span></a> <a href="https://linh.social/tags/Phantasms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phantasms</span></a></p>
Valen RESISTS<p>Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a wonderful take on HP where instead of being raised by a family full of hate and dysfunction, the parents are scientists. Harry then brings the Scientific Method to Hogwarts and analyzes how magic works. He also becomes friends with Draco! Highly recommended.</p><p><a href="https://hpmor.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">hpmor.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Har</span><span class="invisible">ry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rationality</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CriticalThinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalThinking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FanFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FanFiction</span></a></p>
𝗖 𝗔 𝗧<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@silentexception" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>silentexception</span></a></span> </p><p>Science is nothing like religion. Science is a method that uses evidence and peer-review processes to verify the validity of its claims. Religion is the opposite. It has dictates by a god that are to be accepted implicitly and not questioned, even if they make no sense logically or scientifically.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>god</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"A regulation that works might well produce no visible sign that it's working. If your water purification system works, everything is fine. It's only when you get rid of the sanitation system that you discover why it was there in the first place, a realization that might well arrive as you expire in a slick of watery stool with a rectum so prolapsed the survivors can use it as a handle when they drag your corpse to the mass burial pits.</p><p>When Musk and Ramaswamy decry the influence of "unelected bureaucrats" on your life as "undemocratic," they sound reasonable. If unelected bureaucrats were permitted to set policy without democratic instruction or oversight, that would be autocracy.</p><p>Indeed, it would resemble life on the Tesla factory floor: that most autocratic of institutions, where you are at the mercy of the unelected and unqualified CEO of Tesla, who holds the purely ceremonial title of "Chief Engineer" and who paid the company's true founders to falsely describe him as its founder.</p><p>But that's not how it works! At its best, expert regulations turns political choices in to policy that reflects the will of democratically accountable, elected representatives. Sometimes this fails, and when it does, the answer is to fix the system – not abolish it."</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/policy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/pol</span><span class="invisible">icy-based-evidence/#decisions-decisions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Regulation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AntiScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiScience</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libertarianism</span></a></p>
M. Ní Sídach<p>The Relativity of WRONG<br>A reading of the classic Asimov essay<br>GreaterSapien with host Jerry Williams<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@greatersapien" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>greatersapien</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Epistemology</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX4iMeCsBc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=leX4iMeCsB</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RVLara23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RVLara23</span></a></span> <br>It’s just the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> 🤷🏻‍♂️</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikonen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hannu_ikonen</span></a></span> <br>The official name of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAFO</span></a> is the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a>:</p>
Randomnestfamily<p>Scientific Method Printables For HIGH School<br>.<br>"Unlock the Magic of the Scientific Method"<br>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highschool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teaching</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homeschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homeschool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parents</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>magic</span></a></p><p><a href="https://randomnestfamily.org/product/scientific-method-printables-for-high-school-science-experiments/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">randomnestfamily.org/product/s</span><span class="invisible">cientific-method-printables-for-high-school-science-experiments/</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/scientificmethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificmethod</span></a></p>
skua<p>There are claims about what the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> is out there.</p><p>Some of them don't include "Funding".</p><p>Ask yourself, "Do scientists have to eat?"</p>
Daniele<p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SabineHossenfelder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SabineHossenfelder</span></a> massacres, literally, String Theory (ST) and the theory of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) by saying, and I must say with good reason, that in almost 50 years of ‘activity’ (the LGQ a little less) they have failed to produce a single experimental result. Shouldn't they stop producing papers on this stuff? More importantly, do we really need a Theory of Everything?</p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/StringTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StringTheory</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/LoopQuantumGravity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoopQuantumGravity</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/LQG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LQG</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/QuantumPhysic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumPhysic</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/TOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOE</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIvSGLkwJY" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=cBIvSGLkwJ</span><span class="invisible">Y</span></a></p>
ma𝕏pool<p>The piranha problem: Large effects swimming in a small pond.<br>Christopher Tosh, Philip Greengard, Ben Goodrich, Andrew Gelman, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bayes.club/@avehtari" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>avehtari</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@djhsu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>djhsu</span></a></span> <br>2 Apr 2024<br> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13445" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2105.13445</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>In a lot of social science research, small, random factors are reported as having large effects on social and political attitudes and behavior (social priming, hormonal levels,parental socioeconomic status, weather, ...). Studies have claimed to find large effects from these and other inputs.</p><p>The results show that it would be extremely unlikely to have all these large effects coexisting—they would have to almost exactly cancel each other out.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/socialScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialScience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/replicationCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>replicationCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quantitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantitative</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/scientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificMethod</span></a></p>
Kevin C 🎬<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AllStarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AllStarTrek</span></a> This is the anti-animal testing episode. </p><p>"We will keep the causualties to a minimum, and there may be some... deformities." 🤦‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrekVoyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrekVoyager</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a></p>
Kevin C 🎬<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AllStarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AllStarTrek</span></a> Crazy alien scientist? That never happens on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a>.</p><p>Heh, this is the one where the drive <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Janeway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Janeway</span></a> so crazy she almost blows up Voyager? Heh heh heh...<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrekVoyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StarTrekVoyager</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jmcrookston</span></a></span> </p><p>And I want randomised control trials showing that the approach taken in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CassReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CassReport</span></a> to the various types of research available produces high quality clinical outcomes.</p><p>The public really needs a more thorough understanding of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> and how to recognise when it is being abused and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politicised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politicised</span></a>.</p>
Violet Rose<p>Here's another article based on a trend I just don't get. Studies that yield negative results tend not to be published, or even submitted for publication. The article refers to such studies several times as "failed" studies. </p><p>This runs contrary to the principle I taught my junior high science students thirty years ago. I had them come up with an experimental design, create a hypothesis, perform the experiment, and document their results, just like any science class. The most significant lesson from this process isn't just how to perform and document an experiment; it's recognizing that even if your hypothesis is incorrect, you've learned something about the phenomenon you're studying. </p><p>It's hard to believe that the scientific community overall is just realizing the importance of negative or unexpected results. The next time someone studies a certain phenomenon, reviewing negative results tells them what to exclude or control. Otherwise they may unknowingly include factors that have already been shown to affect the results. </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Methodology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Methodology</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01389-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-024</span><span class="invisible">-01389-7</span></a></p>
–modo ⚛️ 🧬 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇺🇦<p>I came across this interesting paper by Megan Stevenson which I am still reading. Even after a few pages it has really piqued my interest since I have definitely harbored what she calls an "engineer's view" that we can do sociological randomized control trials with people to test public policy.</p><p>I have a feeling this is going to trigger a lot of introspection on my thoughts about this until now...</p><p><a href="https://www.bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2023/12/STEVENSON.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bu.edu/bulawreview/files/2023/</span><span class="invisible">12/STEVENSON.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificMethod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMethod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EngineersView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EngineersView</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MeganStevenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MeganStevenson</span></a></p>