Thursday, January 14, 2021

Most Obvious Scientific Conclusions People Witnessed


Someone on AskReddit fired up a thread about the biggest "well duh!" scientific conclusions that people have ever witnessed. Sometimes it seems like folks spend all this time and energy on reaching big old scientific conclusions that a whole lot of other people already considered common knowledge. Oh well. At least their scientifically confirmed. 

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Text - votewithyourmoney · 3h 3 8 2 Awards Study shows walking backwards with a cup of coffee makes you more likely to spill it. Reply 764 TannedCroissant · 2h Oh my god l'm actually laughing out loud, you're not exaggerating it at all. Of course, walking backwards may be less of a practical method to prevent coffee spilling than a mere physical speculation. A few trials will soon reveal that walking backwards, much more than suppressing resonance, drastically increases the chances of tripping o

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Text - Freeiheit • 1h A study of high school students found that those who had sex were more likely to get pregnant. Q Reply 1 59 ...

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Text - DoctorSneak• 3h Most sharks attacks happen in shallow water close to a beach. Makes sense as that's where all the people are. E Q Reply 4 461 3 ...

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Text - potsack · 3h Countries with longer/paid maternity leave have lower rates of postpartum depression Reply 239 ...

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Text - floridaxgirl • 3h Harvard did a study that said beer drinkers are more likely to go to sporting events and wine drinkers are more likely to go to the theater. Talk about no shit. Reply 51 ...

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Text - drunk_dragonfly • 2h Sensory development happens postnatal, while the rudimentary functions already exist prenatally. Literally read several chapters in an expensive developmental psychology class that explained this simple sentence in a flurry of words. One of the reasons I now despise developmental psych although it's quite interesting Reply 12 •..

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Text - tyowtyow • 2h My roommate and i took completely different paths to college every morning and evening. He would always tell me his way was faster. He walked 10 mins to the underground, switched twice, then took a bus to the campus. While I took a bus that left from a minute in front of our house. Finally one day we decided to test it, and left at the exact same time. He got to campus an entire minute ahead of me. It was a "well shit" moment for him because for 5 months he had been putting

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Text - Roving_Rhythmatist · 2h If house cats were bigger they would kill us and eat us. Q Reply 1 102 3 ... DelicatelslandFlower · 2h My biggest fear is large cats. 13 ...

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Text - BrokenArmsFrigidMom · 57m A team of French researchers did a study to see if dogs felt the emotion Love. All they are is fuzzy balls of love. I think it was just a scam so they could get paid to play with dogs for a few months. | Reply 1 Vote 3

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Text - maleorderbride · 2h Electric shock therapy administered to the face is not an effective form of treatment for rattlesnake bites (Source) Reply 275 •.. cen-texan • 1h To be fair, there has been anecdotal evidence over the years that electricity neutralizes certain venoms, including rattlesnake and wasp. 49 ...

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Text - MeLittleSKS • 2h the studies they do on universal basic income where they take like, 100 low-income people, give them a free chunk of cash every month for like, 6 months, and then declare the amazing conclusion that those people were happier, and none quit their jobs or stopped working. E Q Reply ↑ 107 3 ...

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Text - eyebrowshampo0 • 1h There are thousands and thousands of studies that conclude "too much sugar is bad for you." I get at least one new one every week on my google news feed. Yes. That is true. Reply 1 2 ...

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Text - AdvocateSaint · 2h In high school we each had to write and present a research paper on a unique topic, and my friend wrote about sleep deprivation It was a very well crafted paper with credible sources, but he got some light ridicule for his conclusion: "Sleep is the best cure for sleep deprivation" I get where he's coming from though. Currently, there is no real substitute for a good night's sleep. If you need 8 hours of sleep, you can't regularly get only 5 hours and power through the d

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Text - GingerStark · 3h 5G doesn't cause cancer Reply 4 114 ...

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Text - yunatifa · 18m People are happier on weekends. Reply 1 Vote

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Text - hawonkafuckit · 3h I'm a psychology student and many if the studies I read about have that quality. "People are attracted to attractive people", "Too much emphasis on statistical significance testing", "Water is wet"! Reply 1 360

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Text - michajlo · 3h That cats do understand us to a point, they just don't bother reacting. I could've told you that for free. O Reply 1 69 ...

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Text - GladimoreFFXIV • 8m Trickle down economics don't work. They've never worked. They will never work. And it's why we have billionaires and the biggest wealth differential since the 1700's.

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Text - maleorderbride · 2h People get more confused if you use longer words when you don't need to Reply 60 3 ...

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Text - LeFortlll · 2h Science builds on other science. A breakthrough paper needs to reference other papers to make a foundation for its own findings. Often as a single, nearly throw- away sentence with a footnote to that study. Therefore, there is a ton of 'water is wet' science out there. To that end, in my field (dentistry), the most obvious result study showed that the harder you pushed a cutting bur through a material, the more it cut. Reply 40 3 •..

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Text - Sh1nkz • 1h That high heels will make your feet hurt Q Reply 1 Vote ...

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