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From Wikipedia: “In a 2022 paper, it was suggested that the plant has some sort of vision using ocelli. This hypothesis was presented on the basis of experimen
by nycdatasci 4y ago
From Wikipedia:
“In a 2022 paper, it was suggested that the plant has some sort of vision using ocelli. This hypothesis was presented on the basis of experiments in which the vine appeared to mimic plastic vines and artificial plants. However, the only control used was the lower leaves on the same plants, with an opaque shelf over them which could have influenced light exposure. The lack of control plants climbing anything apart from the same model of artificial host plant makes it plausible that the observed differences were due to age and light exposure.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila
- gpvos 4y agoThat seems like a simple hypothesis to test: just do the same setup with the shelves but without the plastic plant. Additional idea: also test with artificial leaves with the same form as a plain Boquila.
- vmception 4y agoSeems like it would be nice if there was peer review on an experiment's setup before papers were released. The current process is wasting everyone's time.
- webmaven 4y agoStudy preregistration accomplishes some of this, though the main aim is to preclude p-hacking and similar motivated data exploration.