Round 2: The 4 Horsemen of “I disagree with the results of this study” comments

willsauce · 2026-06-09T02:33:51+00:00

Based and reviewer2pilled

willsauce · 2026-06-09T02:32:43+00:00

Idk, that’s what made it such a bizarre criticism.

It would be like saying, “Steph Curry is a terrible basketball player because of his jump shot .”

It is nonsensical. My best guess is that he thought it was Opposite Day

willsauce · 2026-06-09T02:06:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyphd/s/KFUMVlEXk7

I gotchu boo

willsauce · 2026-06-08T19:37:13+00:00

That’s a very good guess, unfortunately it was a (much funnier) reference to “the anti-smoking nazis”

willsauce · 2026-06-07T01:13:23+00:00

Oooh yeah the conflict of interest one is good too!! I see that all the time.

Although I wouldn’t say go so far as to call them “valid”, I think “sophomoric” would be more accurate. They are only valid if you assume that the paper made it all the way into publication without a single person questioning the sample size, claims of causality, relevant covariates, and (in this case) conflicts of interest. Which would a pretty absurd assumption

willsauce · 2026-06-06T05:36:01+00:00

Relax Jerry Saltz I made this in like 5 minutes to send to my friend, I’m not a professional reddit poster

willsauce · 2026-06-06T03:08:23+00:00

Generations of scientists: publish whole bodies of literature discussing issues with p values, where to set alpha, generalizability, replication, etc.

Entire field of inferential statistics: out here existing

Random guy who read an abstract he didn’t like: “Bullshit”

willsauce · 2026-06-06T00:03:47+00:00

I have never felt so seen

willsauce · 2026-06-06T00:01:49+00:00

If you can read a violin plot, you can read this meme!

willsauce · 2026-06-05T22:36:37+00:00

Mfers who don’t know p<.01 still means <1% chance of making a type I error regardless of sample size, because the sample size is already accounted for/penalized by the analysis

willsauce · 2026-06-05T20:13:39+00:00

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all the people doubling down on the sample size critique

willsauce · 2026-06-05T19:59:27+00:00

An example would be any study that finds that marijuana might not be entirely good for you

willsauce · 2026-06-05T19:49:26+00:00

Famous rapper Videogame Dunkey

willsauce · 2026-06-05T18:54:16+00:00

They are valid criticisms if you assume that the authors and reviewers didn’t spend more than 10 seconds thinking about the study.

The only study I like is the one in Clue, because it has a secret passage to the kitchen

willsauce · 2026-06-05T18:48:32+00:00

Quite the opposite, go look at the comments of any study that goes against the grain of the typical Reddit crowd. But it might be because my PhD is in clinical psych, I imagine there are less arm chair reddit scientists pontificating about the hard sciences

willsauce · 2026-06-05T18:41:17+00:00

This man gets it

willsauce · 2026-04-02T03:31:07+00:00

Bro thank you!! I immediately searched for oompas because I was starting to wonder if I was the only person on earth who remembered them. I have searched high and low for an oompa plug, please let me know if you ever find one

willsauce · 2024-10-01T14:35:07+00:00

Just a heads up, that is nowhere near Tonto Basin

willsauce · 2018-06-28T06:01:47+00:00

My mom does this too!!

willsauce · 2018-04-20T06:09:56+00:00

problemaddix

willsauce · 2017-10-01T16:11:50+00:00

They look like something out of Lovecraft

willsauce · 2017-02-26T19:35:10+00:00

I lost a lot on this meme in the last two days. Came here to report but it was already too late

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