Let's be fair being a true genius is super rare, being very smart is rare, being 'just' intelligent is less rare...

But the other portion of stupid still knows how to use reddit and the internet, and they do.

I do wonder which categories the comments mostly came from, where you post also says a lot about someone as well.

I some times feel like reddit has lost its ability to simply debate and discuss over argue, but I suppose that's happening everywhere

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>Are you talking about my comment?

Alas, I am responding to your comment.

Your presumption that I am responding to the comment to which you were responding is, alas in vein.

I am not responding to the comment to which you were responding, but to your comment (and have not therefore misplaced my comment as it is indeed a response to yours).

... Alas.

(Alas).

Free living. So it demonstrates nothing.

Cue the Blueberry Fad Diet of 2023

Why so blue?

i always eat blueberries alone.

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See, when I see a study like that I just assume someone got lazy with their doctoral thesis.

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Yep, a good example is anything to do with racial bias.

''OK but did this study control for [insert variable].''

And then you open the study and it has already been controlled for.

Another thing I saw with a lot of studies on police violence and hiring discrimination where people in comments will say it's class and then when you show them a study that did try to control for class and still found an effect, they move the goalpost.

Perhaps there is a drug that can be taken to desensitise it during the diet and then allow it to resume as normal after the diet.

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To be fair, some of the best scientists are the worst communicators.

Some of us are down rabbit holes and already know about the underlying foundational research, so a new study reiterating what we already know dressed up as a “new discovery” is eye-roll worthy.

It’s not what some new study says, it’s how it’s treated by others that I personally find annoying.

It’s sort of like how every other month NASA releases some “big news”….that amounts to yet more evidence of water on Mars. Can’t we just all agree there’s water on Mars. There was water, and there’s still water in places on Mars. Can’t that just be an openly accepted fact at this point?

Yeah, the amount of fat burned after an intense 40 minute ride isn't relevant when I am not riding that intensely for that long.

Blueberry sellers doing confirmation bias studies.

Kinda like big tobacco conducting “science” that concluded smoking cigarettes was totally safe

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Ooooooooooo thx!!!

To shreds you say?

2a) sprinkle cocaine to attract cocaine bears for defense.

5. sprinkle cocaine nearby to distract cocaine bears when harvesting berries.

Are you talking about my comment? I have to presume you must be responding to the comment to which I was responding (and have therefore misplaced your comment as though it were a response to mine), but alas… perhaps not?

This comment is the problem exemplified, a snappy vast oversimplification that misses the point entirely. How did you read all of that abstract,think what you wrote was a suitable summary AND miss the irony in doing that??