#bad research

[greencheekconure27]

YouTube video with AI images popping up on my dash :

"Helios and Clytia: the Love Story that Created Sunflowers!- Greek Mythology!"

Me, without even clicking on the video:

"Horseshit.Sunflowers are native to the Americas and didn't arrive in Europe until the 16th century, the ancient Greeks were NOT writing myths about them.Please read up on the Columbian exchange. Also according to Ovid she turned into a heliotrope, those don't even LOOK like sunflowers. Also I know this is poorly researched from the AI generated illustrations alone 😒🥱"

[starbucksisforducks]

I’m so tired of bad research. I’m so tired. Maybe I just suck at reading research articles but when I read a quote from Article A that says “this thing I’m studying is important because Article B says ABC” and then I go read Article B and realize Article B actually says XYZ (which is directly opposite to ABC), Article A just loses all credibility. Who peer reviewed your research. Who let you develop a hypothesis like that. You misrepresented all of your references… why?

[alpaca-clouds]

The phrase 'really bad vampire video' has me intrigued, though if it's not something you want to get into because of annoyance totally fair.

Ah, darn. Totally forgot to answer my asks. The video I am talking about is this one. It is without a doubt one of the worst videos on the subject I have ever watched, because it is very clear that Somerton did barely any fucking research and had basically a conclusion he started from, rather than developing a conclusion doing research.

Most of all he makes the mistake of saying that vampires are a universal thing (they are not - while there are creatures that feed on humans, vampires as we know them are an East European concept), that vampires mythologically burn in the sun (they don't - while the sun is harmful to some vampires, vampires burning in the sun was not a thing until the movie Nosferatu) or that they cannot cross running water (again, not a thing - I wrote about it a while ago, that the origin of it is them being unable to cross the Danube). There is also tons of mistakes in the way he talks about the original vampire novels and their authors.

It is something I noticed with Somerton in general. That his research is rather lackluster. It also always shows when he talks about Korean and Japanese media and shows a lack of understanding of queer culture within either country.

[reasonandempathy]

Just read what may be the stupidest fucking research I’ve seen in a while.

I was on the phone reading/skimming this for about half an hour gradually discovering levels of bullshit here.

“This is all using members of a twin-study from the 1980s and their families?  Weird, but if that’s a population you can ask.” 

“Wait, you’re putting ‘tough-mindedness’ and ‘impulsivity’ as the same thing?”

“What the?  You’re linking anti-social behavior and hostility and no anxiety or sense of inferiority???”

“You need to explain why socialization and conventionality are the same thing.  Why are they linked at all?”

“Your data for this study is from personality tests of the 1980s?”

“Your conclusion is that political ideology is determined from birth (comparable to sexuality(my insert))?”

It’s using twin data from the 1980s to determine personality traits, contrasting that with political identity and beliefs as an adult in the mid-late 2000′s, and testing whether or not political ideology is genetic.  If you’re born a liberal or a conservative. 

[bad-research]

And per se

Just a reminder that the alphabet is arbitrary and here is an example of why.

The ampersand used to be part of the English alphabet. This funny little character was tacked on at the end, right after Z, so instead of it being ‘X Y and Z’ the alphabet ended ‘X Y Z and and. Only, back then, when a letter was also a word, like I, people would say per se after it so that people would know that they just meant the letter, not the word. This means that the end of the alphabet was actually said ‘X Y Z and per se and. Now, English speaking people are notoriously lazy. As an English speaking person, I can personally attest to this fact. So they would slur the words together so that it sounded like one big long word: ampersand. Then, they got even lazier and just took it out of the alphabet entirely because it was too long. 

So, as we can clearly see, the English alphabet is arbitrary.

[thinbottomedcauldron]

I need fantasy/fairy tale books with Strong Female Characters written by authors who actually understand the difference between stays and a corset, and what they were actually for...Like, if someone has that list somewhere please link it to me, because I am tired of reading books where the protagonist spends time she could be using to advance the plot complaining about her corset, especially when she’d probably be wearing stays, especially because all of those things were just the bras of their time, and had very little to do with creating a tiny waist

[thearchworks]

I couldn’t resist. I had to colour this one.

-Arch.

[darkmagepoppers]

Anytime anyone uses the sites JoyofSatan or AngelFire or whatever the fuck as a reference…just point and laugh.