Comment on peas nutz

HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes but he likely forged some data. Statistics show a high probability of his pea counts with a clear 3:1 phenome split being too good to be true.

  Source: Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart. I also visited his museum on Mendel Square, Brno.

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  • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He also discarded a lot of data that didn’t meet his proposed patterns.

    How do we know? Well, wouldn’t it be a nice coincidence if this motherfucker just casually randomly selected 13 different traits that follow simple dominance patterns - but none of the other dozens of traits that do not?

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, he did not quite follow principles of integrity. But let’s not understate the impact of his work on biology.

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