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minus-squarezerfuffle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-22 years agoThat GFC study contradicts the many studies using both older datasets and newer datasets: CAS: https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/mutimedia_news/202203/t20220322_302792.shtml UNESCO: http://www.unesco-hist.org/index.php?r=en/article/info&id=1714 Journal of Geophysical Research: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JG007101 Remote Sensing: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/13/2592 International Journal of Remote Sensing: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2021.2022804 International Journal of Digital Earth: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2023.2190625 In science, we call this “cherrypicking data.” Colloquially, we understand this to be because someone fucked their experimental validation. In the real world, we call this “disseminating misinformation.”
That GFC study contradicts the many studies using both older datasets and newer datasets:
CAS: https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/mutimedia_news/202203/t20220322_302792.shtml
UNESCO: http://www.unesco-hist.org/index.php?r=en/article/info&id=1714
Journal of Geophysical Research: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JG007101
Remote Sensing: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/13/2592
International Journal of Remote Sensing: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2021.2022804
International Journal of Digital Earth: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2023.2190625
In science, we call this “cherrypicking data.” Colloquially, we understand this to be because someone fucked their experimental validation. In the real world, we call this “disseminating misinformation.”