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This is hilarious. "Actual science", presumably meaning, "peer reviewed paper". Science is not some elitist endeavor. It is available to all of us, to observe
by sjwalter 5y ago
This is hilarious. "Actual science", presumably meaning, "peer reviewed paper".
Science is not some elitist endeavor. It is available to all of us, to observe the world around us and form hypotheses and discuss them and test them, if we're motivated and it's possible.
This attitude is so, so bizarre. You won't believe the changes in the world around you, easily observed, are even happening unless there's "Science The Meme" being done about it.
This short youtube video succinctly explains the problem with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEhPFIlH3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEhPFIlH3U
- esyir 5y agoWhen people say this, my main gripe is that it's used to legitimise anecdote, rather than well structured citizen science. The key thing that separates well constructed datasets from shoddy anecdote is a keen eye for potential confounders and proper data metrics and collection protocols.