• Flying Squid
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    578 months ago

    Poor experiment. He didn’t find out what pollen allergies the plant might have had.

    • Deebster
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      138 months ago

      If I read it, will I understand why “feet” is in the sneeze-causing list?

      • @NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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        48 months ago

        I read it as a joke of increasing absurdity. Sniffing pepper makes people sneeze so that one works (besides the trying to make a plant sneeze part). He got a bit distracted by experiment 2 and mixed up the involuntary reactions sneezing and tickling and tries to tickle it with a feather. He then gets further distracted between experiment 2 and 3, and tests feet which are commonly ticklish.

        When I break it down like this you can see that it is a very funny joke, as one can always tell from a detailed explanation of the joke.

        • @nodimetotie@lemmy.world
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          38 months ago

          I also don’t get it. Not everything that smells causes you to sneeze. None of the methods actually make sense. A feather tickles you, not makes you sneeze. And the pepper? The experiment is invalid. Did not disprove the hypothesis, needs more testing.

  • ultratiem
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    268 months ago

    Wait till OP finds out this was not done by a kid but a full grown man.

  • @Fleur__@lemmy.world
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    228 months ago

    Ground breaking research. Disagree? Show me the study before this where they determined plants don’t sneeze

  • @Jesse@lemmy.ca
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    108 months ago

    Looks like an N value of 1 though. Hopefully results are replicable. I’ll wait for the meta-analysis.

    • vortic
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      78 months ago

      Something tells me that you don’t work in science. The process for getting science funding isn’t simple and weeds out useless studies pretty quickly. On average, calls for proposals have about a 15% success rate. So, 15 in every 100 proposals get funded. They are funded after being vetted for usefulness, feasibility, novelty, cost, and other factors.

      Since studies are well-vetted before getting funded, studies that sound like they’re simple or useless based on headlines normally make a lot of sense when you read the research results.