this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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Mildly Interesting

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 100 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure that’s a study in psychology about how survey results are significantly better with dog pictures just waiting to be written.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Do we need the paper to know it's true? Seems trivial.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I want billions of funding into this. The Internet needs more dog pictures!

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Sorry, I can only fund cat photos

[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 13 points 3 months ago

Formally proving trivial things help when proving non trivial things and sometimes the trivial thing turns out to be wrong.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago

If I needed to cite that fact as a legitimate fact in an academic paper, I would need some evidence that it's true.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

What a bad argument for the existence of reality.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Doctors take feedback?

What type of utopia do you live in?

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My pharmacy sends a survey after every visit. Nothing ever improves.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They there to fire employees with justification.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

Not even fair

[–] droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Is it a vet?

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago
  • Very Good
  • I rated very good because of the dogs on the form
  • We need more dog pictures.
[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Are you a dog yourself?

[–] Log5J@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago

Light patterns

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago