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• Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sorry, but it’s more like a crab apple.

  It looks like an apple, it’s presented like an apple, it’s advertised like an apple because that is what makes the YouTuber money. But scientific methods and standards exist for a reason. It’s very easy to produce bad data and especially easy to extract bad conclusions from data if you have an incentive to do so (such as a fan base who might engage with the video less if the conclusions were against their expectations)

  There’s a chance that this guy’s conclusions reflect what a proper study might have found, but it’s just too hard to tell if it’s a crab apple or not it’s essentially probably a little better than chance.

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  • qweertz@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Exactly, when it comes to highly complex chemical and electrical engineering and physics (as is the case with Smartphones and their lithium-ion batteries), I will take it as an inditcator if it comes from well-established testers with professional equipment like GN (Gamers Nexus), but will not accept it as a general and genuine technical (!) insight until it has gone through the due process of scientific publishing and peer review…

    Even then I prefer meta-studies, since they reduce biases and general inaccuracies.

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