• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    24 hours ago

    I hate when people use the word “research” because most people think it’s reading a Facebook page.

    Real research requires nyears of studying to actually understand the subject before advancing the field. It requires sometimes year or decades of meticulously measuring and registering data, all while ensuring bias stays out of the data.

    To 99% of people it’s spending 5 minutes to find the right Facebook page that will confirm their preconceptions…its gross