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xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research (xkcd.com)
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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is also "We did nothing of value"

[–] Agret@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aka "we applied a standard theory to standard circumstances and got the expected result" - one can argue it does help in a way by providing another dataset although it didn't really accomplish anything it can be useful for student research projects in that field.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

No I meant wasting time with useless stuff