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xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research (xkcd.com)
submitted 11 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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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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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Don't forget "these are novel circumstances and so we attempted something, but really the circumstances are so novel that just documenting them is pretty neat"