Kid's going places

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah! Where is the standard scratch test for allergies? How do we know we even tested items the plant may react too without performing the preliminary test.

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  • painfulasterisk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *Funding needed to carry out such effort.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not college, but places.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good enough science to be a YouTube influencer.

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is.

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    • nodimetotie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Huh, that photo even appears on the webpage

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  • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The smell?

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• ultratiem@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• LostDeer@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Fleur__@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• SapphironZA@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • maeries@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Vorticity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The plant on the right has clearly sneezed

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• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kid’s *probably going places.

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  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That would be the hypothesis.

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    • H4mi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Conclusion: Kid didn’t go places.

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• Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Jesse@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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