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This is how we do it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

A theory is valid only when no proof to the contrary is known, after which the theory must be adjusted to accommodate the new findings, or discarded.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

data be bitching like this unless you work for a private company in which case you are told to make data the company's bitch

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey now for every 5,000 "No's" there's the coveted 1 "Maybe but more data is required".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Maybe if you're really lucky, one day you can get a "Yes, but..... also no."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Lol I need this shirt.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

This is how the science do

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Theory needs data. Data hates theory. It is a love story for the ages.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I like to think that data doesn't hate theory, it just has highly particular tastes. Like this lil octopus guy in a plastic cup, who spends a while rejecting shells before finding one it's happy to abandon its cup for. https://youtu.be/DTJbdy097m0

Imagining the data as a cute octopus helps with the rage when nothing goes right 🙃

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

RIP in pieces, every supersymmetry based theory :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there a new observation regarding supersymmetry?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Couldn't tell ya. Iirc SUSY based theories were pretty much all killed by data by the time the LHC reached 12TeV collisions, and I've been in a different field since then

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, systemic biases definitely don't exist in research because researchers are perfectly indiscriminate human beings and poor research has never led to swaths of the population being hurt or neglected. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

(real)