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The Three Kinds of Scientific Research (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can't have 1st and 2nd without the 3rd kind

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

I think the comic is about types of published articles with the 3rd being "we collated and collected a bunch of data to make this database that other researchers will find useful"-type papers. So you don't need to rely on the map of every tree if you just map some trees yourself.

[–] Skullgrid 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like the way it kinda works regardless of if the punchline is about biological or computer science trees

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

Don't forget ethnographers and the surname Tree

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The map from the third is the "circumstances" of the first two. Or the "results". First two just theorists, I guess.