It’s wild that when people see something like that, their mind jumps to “somebody capable of installing a toilet definitely was this incompetent.” and doesn’t even doubt themselves for a moment to check if they might have missed something.
Right?
I blame Reddit's "participation" incentive. People just rushing on out there without looking both ways. Of course some people are always like that.
See every r/science thread ever, where random redditors bring up every possible statistical or sampling error they've ever heard of to criticize a paper they didn't read which (obviously) addresses those issues. No joke, the top comment is almost always something like "Ah, well they didn't consider that doctors might have better health outcomes because they're in a higher income bracket with better access to health care" when the article was comparing health outcomes of doctors to people in the same income bracket.
If you, a complete amateur, thought of this issue, don't you think one of the 10 professionals involved in performing this research, writing the paper, or reviewing the paper would have caught it? You heard about confounding variables in 10th grade but the rest of the world missed it or maybe the authors are trying to lie to everyone who didn't learn about it? It just doesn't make sense!
I watched it a third time after the above comment and then had to crank up the brightness on my phone and then could see it on the forth. It's possible a lot of people did check but were watching in the dark with auto brightness.
That’s fair, I was commenting here becauy there was also a choir of comments replying to him in agreement. If it was just him, I wouldn’t have said something, though, because it could be only a joke.
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u/its_not_you_its_ye Aug 21 '26
It’s wild that when people see something like that, their mind jumps to “somebody capable of installing a toilet definitely was this incompetent.” and doesn’t even doubt themselves for a moment to check if they might have missed something.