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I think they're referencing that 1488 is used to represent neo-nazi beliefs. I don't know if they're trying to imply that that people that did the studies are

by dx87 7y ago

I think they're referencing that 1488 is used to represent neo-nazi beliefs. I don't know if they're trying to imply that that people that did the studies are neo-nazis, and selected that number of configurations and trials as an in joke.

anigbrowl 7y ago
It certainly seems like an odd coincidence. Perhaps I'm jaundiced from years of monitoring the far right, but they do like such jokes and it's not like 62 is a round or otherwise aesthetically interesting number.
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- waterhouse 7y ago
  And you think some researchers at UC Santa Barbara, under a professor named "Yasamin Mostofi", are far-right and deliberately snuck in a white-supremacist reference? I have a feeling most of the researchers aren't even white... "Chitra Karanam", "Belal Korany", and "Herbert Cai" are the three Ph.D students. Well. Of course, even if all people involved were white, and even if it was a deliberate reference, as long as there's nothing other than the number, no one should get in trouble for that. Under no circumstances should researchers be worrying about the numbers they come up with. If you're doing 420 trials at 69 degrees Fahrenheit, so be it. Cf. this thread: "Six paediatric health‐care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519899
  - anigbrowl 7y ago
    It only needs one person, and I am not suggesting anyone get in trouble but expressing my skepticism about its random nature.
- mcbits 7y ago
  It would be more interesting if the number 1,488 never appeared in any of the millions of papers containing numbers in the low-thousands range.

by dx87 7y ago

anigbrowl 7y ago

It certainly seems like an odd coincidence. Perhaps I'm jaundiced from years of monitoring the far right, but they do like such jokes and it's not like 62 is a round or otherwise aesthetically interesting number.

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waterhouse 7y ago
And you think some researchers at UC Santa Barbara, under a professor named "Yasamin Mostofi", are far-right and deliberately snuck in a white-supremacist reference? I have a feeling most of the researchers aren't even white... "Chitra Karanam", "Belal Korany", and "Herbert Cai" are the three Ph.D students. Well. Of course, even if all people involved were white, and even if it was a deliberate reference, as long as there's nothing other than the number, no one should get in trouble for that. Under no circumstances should researchers be worrying about the numbers they come up with. If you're doing 420 trials at 69 degrees Fahrenheit, so be it. Cf. this thread: "Six paediatric health‐care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18519899
- anigbrowl 7y ago
  It only needs one person, and I am not suggesting anyone get in trouble but expressing my skepticism about its random nature.
mcbits 7y ago
It would be more interesting if the number 1,488 never appeared in any of the millions of papers containing numbers in the low-thousands range.