#significant? i'm sorry i'm turning into the annoying research nerd/academic right now but sometimes reading posts in this our website gets | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

thatbuddie · 8 months ago

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from now on i'm gonna need everyone to start treating fandom posts like academic papers.

if you write "people are saying X" or "i've seen posts about Y" i'm gonna need you to cite those for me in APA style. "the show is presenting that A character is doing Z things for Q reason" you argue? okay then give me 5 peer-reviewed citations now.

you don't give statistics or research facts without actual proof, babes. i'm gonna keep believing you're making shit up until you can show me your reference page.

#i truly think some people just invent discourse where there is none. or they take one thing someone says and interpret it in completely the #wrong way. or they take one single post and extrapolate it to the whole fandom.#like have we not learnt that one research study does not make enough proof for a phenomenon? not even when the “results” are statistically #significant? i'm sorry i'm turning into the annoying research nerd/academic right now but sometimes reading posts in this our website gets #exhausting.#.text

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