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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But is it DATA or DATA?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The first one

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

just happened to me today, still recovering

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Jokes on you, I was testing my null hypothesis