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Which 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 p
by ChuckMcM 7y ago
Which 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.