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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 81 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I usually just cherry pick the data that makes me happy. Works every time.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

It's missing the last two panels where he pulls out a knife and carves up the data

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

That's how you get your paper published. Find the stat with the happiest (see, statistically relevant) outcome, publish based solely on that.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll take a no any day over an " I dunno,maybe, probably not, your methods might have been totally backwards and there's not enough funding to ever do this again the right way." that's often what data seems to whisper to me.

[–] Toes@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago

My personal favourite is "are you sure that's in the design specs?"

[–] lath@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Data should move to a country that lacks the phonemes to properly pronounce your name (looking at you Spanish and your piddly 5 vowel sounds). You end up just answering to anything that sounds similar.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The first one

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

just happened to me today, still recovering

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

NO is good scientific information! Now you just take your old grant application, insert NOT and NO throughout as necessary, and reapply!

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I hate it when I realize I failed to understand something (especially if I was very certain that I did). Making the possibilities set slightly smaller offers little consolation.

Otherwise I agree.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Well, now you have succeeded in understanding the limits of your previous comprehension, and that's the rung you need to stand on to see further. Onward and upward, friend.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 9 points 2 months ago

Incorrect, the smile should be beaming in the last panel. One small step for mankind and all that jazz. :-D

[–] Toes@ani.social 8 points 2 months ago

Jokes on you, I was testing my null hypothesis