Dogs Align With Earth's Magnetic Field While Pooping, Study Finds
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Eh, sometimes she does it late at night when no one's able to take her out... we're still working on that one.Baffle said:
Sleekit said:
By using my sonic screwdriver at setting A-32, I can repel the dog's bum from Earth's magnetic field and send the packet hurtling through the air at some unsuspecting passerby. Gentlemen, I present to you the instant dog cannon, preferably used on something large like a Mastiff or a Great Dane.
I think you need to upgrade the firmware.Houseman said:
Maybe dogs don't orient themselves according to magnetic fields, but choose the side of something that is dry. If I had to poop next to a tree or in high grass, I would choose a spot that wouldn't make me wet. Or maybe they prefer the moist side for some reason, or a spot with the most growth to hide their poop.
The study is a load of DS.
The paper shows a clear bias, where the authors are trying to justify their chosen conclusion from the start rather than discussing the actual evidence. Just for starters, they examined multiple variables, which introduces "degrees of freedom" that allows all sorts of biases to creep in. They even state in the paper that they didnt get the result they wanted, so they changed their method - they pretty much say straight out that the first statistical analysis they tried didnt show anything so they tried a different one to get a result.
This isnt even remotely newsworthy unless or until a better, more reliable replication is done.
The paper shows a clear bias, where the authors are trying to justify their chosen conclusion from the start rather than discussing the actual evidence. Just for starters, they examined multiple variables, which introduces "degrees of freedom" that allows all sorts of biases to creep in. They even state in the paper that they didnt get the result they wanted, so they changed their method - they pretty much say straight out that the first statistical analysis they tried didnt show anything so they tried a different one to get a result.
This isnt even remotely newsworthy unless or until a better, more reliable replication is done.
Great, so when I spend hours in my local park watching dogs poop I'm a weirdo, but when a bunch of Germans do it it's research.
Bloody double standards.
Bloody double standards.
Maybe the dogs were just trying to orient themselves away from the strange scientists and their cameras.
This. It's a huge red flag. If you just keep throwing analyses at a dataset without taking into account the increasing degrees of freedom, sooner or later you'll "find" a "correlation" just by chance.Caffiene said:
How is studying how organic life interacts with magnetic fields, and how they are affected by them, not working towards cybernetics?GamerMage said:
The fact that someone created a study on this suggests that our scientists have way too much time on their hands.
Shouldn't they be designing pollution-free cars or death rays or something?
Shouldn't they be designing pollution-free cars or death rays or something?
TO EVERYONE QUESTING THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS RESEARCH.
-1. Many scientific discoveries happen by accident when studying something seemingly unrelated. You never know what could be important.
-2. Pouring more money and manpower into research isn't going to magically guarantee faster or better results, so it's not like this is all money going to waste that could be put towards finding a cure for cancer or something. People are already trying to do that elsewhere and won't be significantly helped by whatever measly assets went into this.
-3. Considering the popularity and ubiquity of dogs in many countries, and their usefulness in policework and other public services, I would think that understanding them and what they're capable of would be worthwhile knowledge.
-1. Many scientific discoveries happen by accident when studying something seemingly unrelated. You never know what could be important.
-2. Pouring more money and manpower into research isn't going to magically guarantee faster or better results, so it's not like this is all money going to waste that could be put towards finding a cure for cancer or something. People are already trying to do that elsewhere and won't be significantly helped by whatever measly assets went into this.
-3. Considering the popularity and ubiquity of dogs in many countries, and their usefulness in policework and other public services, I would think that understanding them and what they're capable of would be worthwhile knowledge.
I do not have a dog but i had to take care of one for my newphiew for a while they were out of country, and i call DogShit on this study. it pooped in every direction it could find.
I cant speak for anyone else, but personally i sort o "draw a map" whenever i visit a place ive never been in. sort of similar to how you "Explore the map" in RPG games. with landmarks that i notice being... well... landmarks. this way if i get lost i can always "look up at the map" inside my head to orient myself better. It doesnt work 100% of course, and its hard to ind landmarks when colelcting shrooms in a forest, but i have found a way out for the group couple times so i guess it counts for something.Johny_X2 said:
While this is true, to be honest pouring more money into cancer research would help, or rather pouring more server power to cancer research would help since they do a lot of simulations on computer and are basically limited by computing speed there, so giving them a supercomputer or two to play with would speed up the process.OlasDAlmighty said:
This. Jesus, why is the Escapist so down on everything recently? Can't we have a website-wide Resolution to have a little bit of optimism for once?OlasDAlmighty said:
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That's just unfair. We have terrible senses and now it turns out that our 'best friends' have been holding out an entirely new sense we don't have.
Thanks a lot, dogs.