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| | You know you've been editing too long when the captcha shows you traffic lights within walking distance. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.145|172.70.211.145]] 23:39, 25 November 2022 (UTC) | | You know you've been editing too long when the captcha shows you traffic lights within walking distance. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.145|172.70.211.145]] 23:39, 25 November 2022 (UTC) |
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| − | Technically the bacterium in reference [http://calamar.univ-ag.fr/mangroveSAE/articles/2022/Volland%20et%20al%202022.pdf [3]], ''Candidatus Thiomargarita magnifica'', isn't a microbe. But ''Frigoriflavimonas asaccharolytica'' in reference [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10482-021-01656-x [4]] is indisputably cool. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.91|172.71.158.91]] 05:05, 26 November 2022 (UTC) | + | Technically the bacterium in reference [http://calamar.univ-ag.fr/mangroveSAE/articles/2022/Volland%20et%20al%202022.pdf [3]], ''Candidatus (Ca.) Thiomargarita magnifica'', isn't a microbe. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.158.91|172.71.158.91]] 05:05, 26 November 2022 (UTC) |
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| − | I don’t understand the claim that the title text disclaimer means that their intrinsic motivation aligns with the goal of producing high quality work. High quality work in general, yes, but not in this case? I mean, the study concerns wether they are good at finding cool microbes, while they have an intrinsic motivation to be good at it. Doesn’t this mean that their desire to be good may cause them to overrate their goodness in their study of their own goodness? —[[User:While False|While False]] ([[User:While False/explain xkcd museum|'''museum''']] | [[User talk:While False|talk]] | [[special:Contributions/While_False|contributions]] | [[special:Log/While_False|logs]] | [[Special:UserRights/While_False|rights]] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&printable=yes printable version] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=User:While_False&action=info page information] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:While_False what links there] | [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&days=30&from=&target=User%3AWhile_False related changes] | [https://www.google.com Google search] | current time: {{CURRENTTIME}}) 05:42, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
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| − | ::I wonder if the person who wrote the interpretation was considering Cueball's original title, since that wouldn't motivate them to lie about their abilities, and an accurate description of the "cool microbe" would be executing their desire to be "good at science". But I agree that the joke seems to stem from the updated title, where their abilities are the hypothesis under question.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.107.245|162.158.107.245]] 14:56, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
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| − | I'm getting an Alex Trebek vibe here — "I'm sorry, we can't accept that since you did not put it in the form of a question." [[User:RAGBRAIvet|RAGBRAIvet]] ([[User talk:RAGBRAIvet|talk]]) 04:35, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
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| − | I didn't read the paper title as being clickbait (or puffery) at all, just informal and playful. How is "cool microbe" deceitful or misleading? If anything, most scientists would probably be ''less'' likely to read (or even find) a paper with that title, I imagine. Same type of humor as [[2456: Types of Scientific Paper]] [[Special:Contributions/172.71.102.215|172.71.102.215]] 08:06, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
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