If a hypothesis is untestable, then it is a guess, and not scientific.
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acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 months agoit’s a hypothesis worth studying.
Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee 4 months ago
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
it’s not untestable, they just haven’t actually done it yet. In fact they say in the article research is needed.
meco03211@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Studying sure. But this is openly speculating to the uninformed masses. Can earphones cause cancer? Unless you can prove they don’t, that is a hypothesis that could be tested. But more importantly, it’s slop for clickbait bullshit so your aunt can post that to Facebook and feel superior to all the dregs giving themselves cancer by wearing earphones. It’s useless.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
eh, I don’t see a problem with this article specifically, and I don’t think your “cancer” hyperbole is a helpful comparison. If people feel like they are suffering from a similar listening/attention issue, there’s no real harm in trying to go without noise-cancelling for a while to see if the symptoms improve.
TBi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
According to this articles methods we know that noise cancelling headphones kill people, since everyone who uses them dies! (Eventually and yes /s)