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While searching for popper toys in action, I found a figure in a scientific paper. Not sure if it would belong on this page. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326439672_Dynamics_of_viscoelastic_snap-through#pf2 [[User:Pgn674|Pgn674]] ([[User talk:Pgn674|talk]]) 20:15, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Isn't it also allusion to Kerbal Space Program game? The ship in picture looks similar to game's stock crafts. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.249|162.158.91.249]] 21:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
:Possibly? The girders and the capsule look similar, but the green bit looks a little like a Project Orion pusher plate to me. (Or maybe I just like Project Orion too much). [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.229|141.101.99.229]] 21:07, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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:Agree on the Kerbal. Note the KSP in "Kid Space Program". I also thought it had a nod towards Project Orion pusher plate. On an unrelated but fun note: Oxford science blog discusses the mathematics that describe jumping popper snap-through: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/how-do-jumping-popper-toys-work.<br />
[[User:Tomb|Tomb]] ([[User talk:Tomb|talk]]) 21:40, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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The title text may refer to the way that NASA seems stuck in their ways and not willing to innovate, i.e. living in the past. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.249|162.158.91.249]] 21:13, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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I agree with the above suggestion that Kerbal Space Program is part of the joke, KSP is to iconic a acronym for Munroe to ignore, plus, he has mentioned it in other strips.<br />
:Or even "too iconic an acronym". [[Special:Contributions/198.41.238.106|198.41.238.106]] 21:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Is today some sort of special "90's day"? SMBC has a 90s-themed comic as well.[[User:Account|Account]] ([[User talk:Account|talk]]) 21:26, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
:Per http://www.holidays-and-observances.com/may-10.html, it is not. [[User:Piano|Piano]] ([[User talk:Piano|talk]]) 22:22, 10 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
::I think maybe "90s" is a little off. I had one of these in 1987. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.106|141.101.98.106]] 08:26, 11 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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I was squinting hard at the original, trying to understand the connection between a diaphragm (a barrier contraception method), kids, and launching into space. Smth about spermatozoids? Resorted to explainxkcd, and learned that it's some kind of "popper"... Oh, well :)<br />
:Still better than when I thought "putting a parachute below the capsule can't possibly be aerodynamically stable". I thought it was a landing system. <br />
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Interesting… I'm a 90s kid, and I've never even heard of these. I had to come here to figure out what I was looking at. [[User:NoriMori|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori|talk]]) 03:00, 11 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
:snap! I thought it was a diaphragm too :o) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.50|108.162.249.50]] 06:05, 11 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
::I would have known what it was if it was a photograph. There's no real sense of scale or texture here, I thought it was some kind of weird parachute like kids used in gym class. -[[Special:Contributions/172.68.57.75|172.68.57.75]] 06:25, 11 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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;How effective would this thing actually be?<br><br />
Obviously it's not going to go to space. But would a popper of this apparent size even be able to fling itself upward at all? Do the mechanics hold up when scaled up that large, or does all the mass and weight of the rubber get in the way? Or something about the physics of how it un-inverts itself? I've seen a few of these things, and they get some impressive height, but they were all pretty small. I found a Youtube video of a guy making some quite large ones (by toy standards), and the amount of height they get seems to go down as the size of the thing goes up. <br />
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This isn't the clearest xkcd - So it isn't supposed to be a diaphragm? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.68.167|172.69.68.167]] 06:51, 11 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
:Depends? I've seen 3 inch models that pop higher than 1 inch models. I also think the old school solid ones pop higher than the 'safety' version you get now with a hole in the top. Side note: kids like me are why they have those safety holes now. For gits and shiggles in the summer of '86 I placed one of them on my forehead, and pushed in. It made a mighty suction cup, and took the better part of a minute to get off my face. As you might expect, a solid minute of extreme suction on my skin created the expectant 'hickey' and I had a 3 inch round dot on my forehead for about a week.<br />
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Now I understand why xkcd has a tendency to occasionally irk me- because he's a 90's kid. Us 80's kids used real gunpowder to send our rockets a few thousand feet high. Ok, less than 2000, but at least we didn't use a rubber thing resembling a boob. And get off my lawn, you young whipper snapper.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 13:04, 11 May 2021 (UTC)<br />
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;Maybe I'm reading too much in to it, but it looks a bit like an Orion type spacecraft with the pusher plate drawn to specifically resemble those pop toys? <br></div>172.68.132.45https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1942:_Memorable_Quotes&diff=2114521942: Memorable Quotes2021-05-03T03:50:59Z<p>172.68.132.45: Remove unexplained and very tenuous reference assumption.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1942<br />
| date = January 15, 2018<br />
| title = Memorable Quotes<br />
| image = memorable_quotes.png<br />
| titletext = "Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. &mdash;Randall Munroe<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic "helpfully" provides random quotes to be used by anyone as {{w|blurb}}s, online reviews, motivational quotes or similar short bits of text. Either the {{w|webcomic}} [[xkcd]] or its creator [[Randall|Randall Munroe]] may be quoted when using any of the provided lines, as stated at the top of the comic. <br />
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In particular, their "usefulness" lies in the fact that almost any of them are equally applicable to almost any situation. This is achieved by making each quote not really about anything in particular, aside from the fact that they are quotes. This is in contrast to typical quotes, which are never quite this aware that they will be quoted, but this is to be expected when the lines here were made solely for being quoted. <br />
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These self-aware quotes are, on a meta level, jokes about quotations generally. Most of Randall's quotes either sabotage the quoting work, reference some aspect of quotes as used in practice, or both---and it can be both when the aspects referenced are about twisting people's words to look like they agree with you.<br />
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The title-text does not have an ending quote mark, so "- Randall Munroe" is part of the quote, and possibly everything in xkcd after that until the next ending quote. Note that the next quote mark in xkcd is in [[1947: Night Sky]].<br />
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==Table==<br />
{| border =1 width=100% cellpadding=5 class="wikitable"<br />
! Quote !! Explanation<br />
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|''"I disagree strongly with whatever work this quote is attached to."''<br />
|Quotes are often used in, or on, publications and documents to add weight to them by making it seem like the person being quoted endorses their content or message. This quote would actively undermine the reputation of the work, unless said work advertises itself as a farce.<br />
|-<br />
|''"This quote was taken out of context."''<br />
|Quotes are commonly taken out of context to make it look as though they support a (sometimes fallacious) point, or to falsely imply an endorsement of the work they are attached to. However, since this quote serves no purpose beyond pointing out that it is out of context, there would be no point in trying to use it in this way. In any case, since all these quotes are provided without any real context, it's not clear what taking it out of context would mean.<br />
|-<br />
|''"This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain."''<br />
|Many quotes are misattributed to famous people who are well known for originating a lot of quotes (such as [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Misattributed Mark Twain], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#Misattributed Dr. Seuss], or [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Misattributed Albert Einstein]). If this quote was attributed to Mark Twain, however, it would be immediately clear that either it wasn't said by him, or he was lying at the time. <br />
|-<br />
|''"I'm being quoted to introduce something, but I have no idea what it is and certainly don't endorse it."''<br />
|This is likely the case for many famous, widely admired people who are often quoted for all sorts of arguments, even diametrically opposed ones. <br />
|-<br />
|''"This quote is very memorable."''<br />
|This is likely not the case; this quote itself is very forgettable, being very short, and containing no insight on anything meaningful. However, the irony is that this simple quote stating it’s memorableness may be enough to get it stuck in your head, making it a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. This quote could actually be useful if you were preparing a presentation on how to give presentations, and wanted to illustrate the misuse of quotes.<br />
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|''"I wrote this book, and the person quoting me here is taking credit for it."''<br />
|The quote is attempting to sabotage the authorship of the book that uses it. Paradoxically, though, by implying that Randall wrote the book, it also implies that he is the one using the quote, and therefore claiming credit that is not due to him.<br />
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|''"This entire thing is the quote, not just the part in quote marks." [Quote marks, brackets, and editor's note are all in the original. —Ed.]''<br />
|Editors sometimes use square brackets within or after a quote in order to make a comment on the quote, such as to note that mistakes or typographical oddities were in the author's original, to correct factual errors, or to provide additional context. Randall is deliberately confusing the issue by including what appears to be an editor's note within the quote itself.<br />
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Further confusion would be caused if the quoting author, or their editor, wanted to include a note of their own, such as one noting that this odd construction was in the original quote, because it would be hard to tell what the scope of the claims were, and who wrote each editor’s note. Such problems of clarity can be solved using different formatting or typographical techniques such as footnotes. Programming languages avoid this type of ambiguity by using {{w|escape characters}}.<br />
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|''"Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources."''<br />
|Websites that collect quotes are infamous for not checking sources. This has been parodied in many ways. The implication would be that if you found this quote on such a website, there would be a good chance that it was inaccurate or misattributed.<br />
|-<br />
|''"This quote will be the only part of this presentation you remember."''<br />
|When used effectively in a presentation a quote should succinctly summarize the ideas being presented in a memorable, pithy phrase that helps to bring to mind the rest of the message. However, it is a common experience, especially if the presentation was weak, or the quote was not particularly appropriate, for them to be the only part you remember. <br />
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|''"Oooh, look at me, I looked up a quote!"''<br />
|It is sometimes recommended to add quotes to a work or, particularly a presentation, to add weight, wit, or authority. However, it is common for quotes to appear to have been included because the author thought there ought to be one, rather than serving any particular purpose, especially if the quote chosen is of questionable relevance. This quote would make it very clear that this was the case. <br />
|-<br />
|''"If you're doing a text search in this document for the word 'butts,' the good news is that it's here, but the bad news is that it only appears in this unrelated quote."''<br />
|This would probably occur if you decided to follow Randall's advice and include this quote in your work, since this is a fairly infrequently used word in most contexts.<br />
|-<br />
|''"Wait, what if these quote marks are inside out, so everything in the rest of the document is the quotation and ''this'' part isn't? ''Duuuuude.''"''<br />
|The quote imitates the stereotype of hippies, typically ones on drugs, announcing what they believe to be deep insights into reality. If it were true, it would mean that whoever wrote the quoting work would be stealing the entire thing from somewhere, with the exception of these two weird sentences pointing it out.<br />
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|''"The editors of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' are a bunch of cowards who don't have the guts to print this."''<br />
|The author of this quote is apparently making a desperate attempt to get a quote published by challenging the editors of ''{{w|Bartlett's Familiar Quotations}}'', or perhaps is resentful, having attempted to get them to publish his quote(s) and been rejected.<br />
|-<br />
|''"This quote only looks profound when it's in a script font over a sunset."''<br />
|Supposedly inspirational quotes are often set in a fancy font above a picture of a sunset, mountain range, beach, etc. to make them look more profound. However, these are often ridiculed as being trite or vacuous. This quote takes the unusual step of acknowledging that, without such formatting, it looks boring and average.<br />
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|''"I don't do a lot of public speaking, so I looked up a memorable quote to start my speech, and this is what I found. OK, you're staring at me blankly, but this whole thing is a quote. I know that sounds confusing, but... you know what, never mind."''<br />
|People often begin speeches with a memorable quote in order to engage the audience. Using this quote would give the impression that the person speaking lacked confidence in their speech and, particularly, the quote they had chosen to introduce it, being interesting enough to get people's attention.<br />
|-<br />
|''"Sent from my iPhone"''<br />
|This is the default email signature on an {{w|iPhone}}. Quoting this might lead the reader to think that you typed the preceding work on your phone, or that Randall sent the quote from his phone, and you lazily copied and pasted the wrong part of the message.<br />
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|''"Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. —Randall Munroe<br />
|Appears in the title text. Randall Munroe is saying that because there's no ending quotation mark, the rest of the book this quote is in is part of Randall's quote, including, weirdly, the piece of text, after what should be the quote, specifying that Randall has also said his name.<br />
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This is roughly consistent with the formatting required to perform SQL injection referenced in [[327]]: Exploits of a Mom. Because it doesn’t have any punctuation before the first “, it wouldn’t actually perform an injection attack, instead causing an entire query to be part of a single string. <br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:Looking for a quote for something?<br />
:Here are some for general use.<br />
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:They can be attributed to xkcd or Randall Munroe as needed.<br />
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:"I disagree strongly with whatever work this quote is attached to."<br />
:"This quote was taken out of context."<br />
:"This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain."<br />
:"I'm being quoted to introduce something, but I have no idea what it is and certainly don't endorse it."<br />
:"This quote is very memorable."<br />
:"I wrote this book, and the person quoting me here is taking credit for it."<br />
:"This entire thing is the quote, not just the part in quote marks." [quote marks, brackets, and editor's note are all in the original. -ED.]<br />
:"Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources."<br />
:"This quote will be the only part of this presentation you remember."<br />
:"Oooh, look at me, I looked up a quote!"<br />
:"If you're doing a text search in this document for the word 'butts,' the good news is that it's here, but the bad news is that it only appears in this unrelated quote."<br />
:"Wait, what if these quote marks are inside out, so everything in the rest of the document is the quotation and ''this'' part isn't? ''Duuuuude."<br />
:"The editors of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' are a bunch of cowards who don't have the guts to print this."<br />
:"This quote only looks profound when it's in a script font over a sunset."<br />
:"I don't do a lot of public speaking, so I looked up a memorable quote to start my speech, and this is what I found. OK, you're staring at me blankly, but this whole thing is a quote. I know that sounds confusing, but... You know what, never mind!"<br />
:"Sent from my iPhone."<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>172.68.132.45https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2457:_After_the_Pandemic&diff=2113842457: After the Pandemic2021-04-30T17:26:56Z<p>172.68.132.45: /* Explanation */</p>
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| number = 2457<br />
| date = April 30, 2021<br />
| title = After the Pandemic<br />
| image = after_the_pandemic.png<br />
| titletext = I'm looking forward to having to worry a lot less about covid, but wouldn't mind if we worried a little more about giving each other colds. Colds are bad!<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a FACE MASK. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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This is another in a series of comics about the Covid-19 pandemic.<br />
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In this comic Randall is saying that he is looking forward to not having to wear a mask everywhere after the pandemic is over. Mandatory mask mandates were a common means by which various governments attempted to minimize the spread of Covid-19, prior to the development of vaccines. Now that the vaccines exist, people are assuming that these mask mandates will soon end, and in many jurisdictions they have already.<br />
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However, Randall hopes that people will continue the practice of wearing a mask when they are sick, as is common in many East Asian countries. This lets other people know the person is sick so they can give the sick person distance, and also prevents the sick person's coughs, which contain particles of the virus causing the sickness, from getting into the air. Both features would help reduce the spread of communicable diseases. Also, Randall thinks other people coughing on him is gross, as do most people.<br />
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The title text continues this line of reasoning by saying Randall wants to worry less about Covid-19, but hopes people would worry more about colds. However, the main benefit from continued mask wearing by sick people would be to help reduce the spread of the flu. Colds are generally mild and might cause someone to spend a few days home sick from work or school, however the flu is a deadly disease that usually kills tens of thousands of people each year.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+After the Pandemic<br />
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|Things I will not miss one bit after the Pandemic<br />
|Things I hope stick around and become normalized<br />
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|Wearing masks everywhere<br />
|Wearing masks when you're feeling sick, because it's an easy way to tell people to give you space, and also getting coughed on is gross<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>172.68.132.45https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2456:_Types_of_Scientific_Paper&diff=2111902456: Types of Scientific Paper2021-04-28T21:04:45Z<p>172.68.132.45: </p>
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| number = 2456<br />
| date = April 28, 2021<br />
| title = Types of Scientific Paper<br />
| image = types_of_scientific_paper.png<br />
| titletext = Others include "We've incrementally improved the estimate of this coefficient," "Maybe all these categories are wrong," and "We found a way to make student volunters worse at tasks."<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a RESEARCH DEPARTMENT ON A LUNCHBREAK. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
In this comic, Randall describes categories of scientific papers with somewhat humorous generalized titles.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+Breakdown of Papers<br />
|-<br />
|Paper Title<br />
|Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|We put a camera somewhere new<br />
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|-<br />
|Hey, I found a trove of old records! They don't turn out to be particularly useful, but still, cool!<br />
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|-<br />
|My colleague is wrong and I can finally prove it<br />
| This title refers to the occasional rivalries between scientists within a field, which can push them to seek proof that they, and not their colleague, are correct.<br />
|-<br />
|The immune system is at it again<br />
|The human immune system is notoriously complex, and there are countless papers in medical fields just describing its strangeness<br />
|-<br />
|We figured out how to make this exotic material, so email us if you need some<br />
|Researchers often attempt to create materials despite there not being any demand, predicting that in the future their material will be game-changing without any actual applications. These researchers have created such a material, and are offering to produce it for anyone who needs it<br />
|-<br />
|What are fish even doing down there<br />
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|-<br />
|This task I had to do anyway turned out to be hard enough for its own paper<br />
|There is a huge variety in the complexity and importance of subjects studied in scientific papers, and often some supposedly easy task will be sufficiently complicated as to merit its own paper.<br />
|-<br />
|Hey, at least we showed that this method can produce results! That's not nothing, right?<br />
|One of the struggles of the scientific method is that many experiments will not produce the results scientists desired or expected. These results are still (sometimes) important, but are often ignored compared to research with important findings<br />
|-<br />
|Check out this weird thing one of us saw while out for a walk<br />
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|-<br />
|We are 500 scientists and here's what we've been up to for the last 10 years<br />
| Some papers summarize the work of big research teams, like those working on the LHC or LIGO. Since the discoveries which are made are a team effort, the papers have many authors listed. The thumbnail in the comic shows a long list of author names above the main horizontal bar.<br />
|-<br />
|Some thoughts on how everyone else is bad at research<br />
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|-<br />
|We scanned some undergraduates<br />
|Undergraduate students often volunteer to participate in studies, to the point where it has been described in social psychology as WEIRD: White Educated students from Industrialized Rich Democratic societies<br />
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Trivia: As of now, this comic's title text misspells volunteers as volunters. This may be intentional (WE might be the volunteers).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
Types of Scientific Paper<br />
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We put a camera somewhere new<br />
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Hey, I found a trove of old records! They don't turn out to be particularly useful, but still, cool!<br />
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My colleague is wrong and I can finally prove it<br />
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The immune system is at it again<br />
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We figured out how to make this exotic material, so email us if you need some<br />
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What are fish even doing down there<br />
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This task I had to do anyway turned out to be hard enough for its own paper<br />
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Hey, at least we showed that this method can produce results! That's not nothing, right?<br />
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Check out this weird thing one of us saw while out for a walk<br />
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We are 500 scientists and here's what we've been up to for the last 10 years<br />
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Some thoughts on how everyone else is bad at research<br />
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We scanned some undergraduates<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>172.68.132.45https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2456:_Types_of_Scientific_Paper&diff=211191Talk:2456: Types of Scientific Paper2021-04-28T21:04:45Z<p>172.68.132.45: </p>
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I've a feeling we could find actual papers that paraphrase down to those in the comic. Also, lol at the 500 scientists' "citation" section. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.104|162.158.159.104]] 20:36, 28 April 2021 (UTC)<br />
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As we edit this we should probably pay attention to the content / layout of the article images: The number of lines beneath the title and layout of each "paper" he's drawn could be relevant to the joke. For example, the "500 scientists" presumably have a massive authors list, and the one on how "everyone else is doing it wrong" has a single author and a particularly "article-esque" layout.<br />
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[[Special:Contributions/172.68.132.45|172.68.132.45]] 21:04, 28 April 2021 (UTC)</div>172.68.132.45https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2456:_Types_of_Scientific_Paper&diff=2111892456: Types of Scientific Paper2021-04-28T21:04:21Z<p>172.68.132.45: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2456<br />
| date = April 28, 2021<br />
| title = Types of Scientific Paper<br />
| image = types_of_scientific_paper.png<br />
| titletext = Others include "We've incrementally improved the estimate of this coefficient," "Maybe all these categories are wrong," and "We found a way to make student volunters worse at tasks."<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a RESEARCH DEPARTMENT ON A LUNCHBREAK. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
In this comic, Randall describes categories of scientific papers with somewhat humorous generalized titles.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+Breakdown of Papers<br />
|-<br />
|Paper Title<br />
|Explanation<br />
|-<br />
|We put a camera somewhere new<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Hey, I found a trove of old records! They don't turn out to be particularly useful, but still, cool!<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|My colleague is wrong and I can finally prove it<br />
| This title refers to the occasional rivalries between scientists within a field, which can push them to seek proof that they, and not their colleague, are correct.<br />
|-<br />
|The immune system is at it again<br />
|The human immune system is notoriously complex, and there are countless papers in medical fields just describing its strangeness<br />
|-<br />
|We figured out how to make this exotic material, so email us if you need some<br />
|Researchers often attempt to create materials despite there not being any demand, predicting that in the future their material will be game-changing without any actual applications. These researchers have created such a material, and are offering to produce it for anyone who needs it<br />
|-<br />
|What are fish even doing down there<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|This task I had to do anyway turned out to be hard enough for its own paper<br />
|There is a huge variety in the complexity and importance of subjects studied in scientific papers, and often some supposedly easy task will be sufficiently complicated as to merit its own paper.<br />
|-<br />
|Hey, at least we showed that this method can produce results! That's not nothing, right?<br />
|One of the struggles of the scientific method is that many experiments will not produce the results scientists desired or expected. These results are still (sometimes) important, but are often ignored compared to research with important findings<br />
|-<br />
|Check out this weird thing one of us saw while out for a walk<br />
|<br />
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|We are 500 scientist and here's what we've been up to for the last 10 years<br />
| Some papers summarize the work of big research teams, like those working on the LHC or LIGO. Since the discoveries which are made are a team effort, the papers have many authors listed. The thumbnail in the comic shows a long list of author names above the main horizontal bar.<br />
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|Some thoughts on how everyone else is bad at research<br />
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|We scanned some undergraduates<br />
|Undergraduate students often volunteer to participate in studies, to the point where it has been described in social psychology as WEIRD: White Educated students from Industrialized Rich Democratic societies<br />
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Trivia: As of now, this comic's title text misspells volunteers as volunters. This may be intentional (WE might be the volunteers).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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Types of Scientific Paper<br />
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We put a camera somewhere new<br />
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Hey, I found a trove of old records! They don't turn out to be particularly useful, but still, cool!<br />
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My colleague is wrong and I can finally prove it<br />
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The immune system is at it again<br />
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We figured out how to make this exotic material, so email us if you need some<br />
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What are fish even doing down there<br />
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This task I had to do anyway turned out to be hard enough for its own paper<br />
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Hey, at least we showed that this method can produce results! That's not nothing, right?<br />
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Check out this weird thing one of us saw while out for a walk<br />
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We are 500 scientists and here's what we've been up to for the last 10 years<br />
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Some thoughts on how everyone else is bad at research<br />
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We scanned some undergraduates<br />
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