Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

It is really depressing seeing how many people that's good enough for.

That's true, but my point cuts a little deeper: That's not what 'research' is.

Research has come to mean "I Googled it" in common vernacular, and it drives me up the wall. You didn't research anything: you didn't formulate a question, you didn't collect data, you didn't eliminate outliers and bias, you didn't consult any experts or identify any patterns, etc. You just walked into your favorite echo-chamber and found someone who agrees with you. Or you were even lazier, and just used an internet search engine (or a hallucinating digital thief) and scrolled until you found an answer you liked.

STOP. CALLING. IT. RESEARCH.

I need to go lie down.

 

[overgeeked]

I was listening to a panel recording from a recent gaming convention and listening to the panelists acknowledge game after game that they had not only not played, but not even heard of. People, if your expertise is what you're promoting about yourself, maybe work on learning something new in your field on a regular basis.

That's really depressing. Bottlenecks and monopolies are always bad news. Makes me thankful something like the OSR/NSR exists. Lots of free-flowing creativity and people trying all kinds of games. It's almost like those two are directly linked.

 

[Thomas Shey]

There was a recent reddit post in which an individual said that not only did they give "heartfelt recommendations" for a game, but they accepted a position as a moderator of the relevant board...without ever having played it.

While the former, at the very least, requires you have a great degree of faith in your ability to assess a game by reading alone, I'm not actually sure the usual functions of a moderator require knowing the topic of a board being moderated more than in a cursory fashion, given they're primarly about people management, not the topic of the board. It'd be unusual for someone who didn't care about said topic to want to bother, but I don't see any reason it'd impair their functionality. If anything, it might improve it, since they'd be less prone to take sides in an argument.

 

[Scribe]

You just walked into your favorite echo-chamber and found someone who agrees with you. Or you were even lazier, and just used an internet search engine (or a hallucinating digital thief) and scrolled until you found an answer you liked.

Critical thought ref: 2018-Today.

 

[dragoner]

Of course changing your oil is exactly like Pavlov's Freedom Reflex.

 

[Ryujin]

That's true, but my point cuts a little deeper: That's not what 'research' is.

Research has come to mean "I Googled it" in common vernacular, and it drives me up the wall. You didn't research anything: you didn't formulate a question, you didn't collect data, you didn't eliminate outliers and bias, you didn't consult any experts or identify any patterns, etc. You just walked into your favorite echo-chamber and found someone who agrees with you. Or you were even lazier, and just used an internet search engine (or a hallucinating digital thief) and scrolled until you found an answer you liked.

STOP. CALLING. IT. RESEARCH.

I need to go lie down.

Hint: If you want to say that you actually "researched" something on Google, start by using an incognito window. I bloody hate how it filters the answers through my previous search history. If I don't know something then the answer isn't where I've looked before.

 

[CleverNickName]

Hint: If you want to say that you actually "researched" something on Google, start by using an incognito window. I bloody hate how it filters the answers through my previous search history. If I don't know something then the answer isn't where I've looked before.

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when Wikipedia is somehow more trustworthy and accurate than Google, but here we are.

 

[dragoner]

Confirmation bias - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[overgeeked]

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when Wikipedia is somehow more trustworthy and accurate than Google, but here we are.

Water's not wet without a citation on Wikipedia. It's been a reliable source for more than a decade.

 

[Scribe]

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Clearly too tired if I'm deleting this many comments today.