Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by AlecSchueler on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:21AM
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I had a similar thought, something like varying levels of ambient humidity closer to the washroom. The experiment needs to be repeated in more controlled conditions. Surprised to see the HN crowd taking this obvious pseudoscience at face value.
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Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by generalizations on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:50AM
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I'm surprised to see experimentation being dismissed so readily.
Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by AlecSchueler on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:26AM
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Calling for more rigorous experimentation is not a dismissal of experimentation. It's healthy to be critical about experimental methodologies and to call for more rigour before conclusions are drawn.
Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by eutropia on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:55AM
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experiments are not pseudoscience; we teach kids science via science fair projects doing very similar types of experiments.
Pseudoscience is generally when you have an explanation for something but no evidence, and generalize that theory to explain too much
Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by AlecSchueler on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:25AM
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No, experimenting is not pseudoscience, but taking a single flawed experiment communicated anecdotally with no mention of setup or control and then moving into discussion about the "results" as if it was performed in any way reproducibly is pseudoscience. It presents itself as science but when you pick it apart it's actually lacking many mainstays of what we'd call scientific methodology.
Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by seunosewa on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:06AM
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It's not necessarily false, it's just less rigorous.
So we can call it light science. Or amateur science?
People shouldn't be discouraged from practicing science.
Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by AlecSchueler on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:07PM
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Or we could call it pseudoscience? I'm not discouraging anyone, in fact I'm encouraging repeating the experiment with more rigour, that is calling you more science.
Re:Low current around roots boosts plant growth
by frankyg on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @06:35AM
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dude just experimented a bit.
science is when what you call rigour leads from hypothesis closer to fact or not fact.
op just tried a quick and dirty experiment with duck tape and stuff.
get your attitude right, mate.
name three examples that describe the term pseudo-science, to begin with. Psychology doesn't count ^^