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No kidding. This is a quintessential example of what is wrong in research. If you were to just read the paper you’d definitely come to the conclusion that the r
by nikkwong 7y ago
No kidding. This is a quintessential example of what is wrong in research. If you were to just read the paper you’d definitely come to the conclusion that the researchers want to make—that monkeys dance much like we do. Then you go and watch the video and find their conclusion...biased at the least.
The instances in which this type of tomfoolery becomes truly malignant are the ones in which it’s less obvious. I.e researchers have hidden or hashed the original data and then published something that we can’t unscramble.
I’m literally expecting to hear “everybody dance now” and end up hearing that charade instead. Lol.
- ChuckMcM 7y agoWhich is the really super awesome part of science. You find chimps that don't care when they hear music. You find chimps that make "dance like moves" when you play atonal non-syncopated note structures, you find chimps that make "dance like moves" when you play dialog. Then you go through and plot your results and you show that this particular study isn't really indicative of what is going on. My mother once lamented "How can they call that science? That isn't a valid way to test that statement." And I reminded her, publishing a paper isn't "science", forming a hypothesis and a set of experiments to prove or disprove that hypothesis, and then having others test your hypothesis in different ways and getting the same result. THAT is the scientific process. And after that happens you know something new and you can demonstrate it on demand, each time, every time, because you know what is going on.