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Re:Bus Lane Blocked, He Trained His Computer to Catch Scofflaws by kolpa on Friday March 16, 2018 @04:19PM (#16603726)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562214/

> A common expression would have us believe that ‘you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar’. But this is not true in the case of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (xkcd, 2007).

Yes, NIH cited XKCD https://xkcd.com/357/

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Re:Bus Lane Blocked, He Trained His Computer to Catch Scofflaws by hueving on Friday March 16, 2018 @10:54PM (#16605375)
Missing the forest for the trees.
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Re:Bus Lane Blocked, He Trained His Computer to Catch Scofflaws by sah2ed on Saturday March 17, 2018 @06:34AM (#16606326)
I don't think that applies here since the poster didn't disagree with the excerpt, they only pointed to a correction -- the fact that an aspect of conventional wisdom had been rendered untrue via research.

The link to xkcd-inspired research was useful.

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