I turned on the TV the other day and there was that “Brainiac : Science Abuse” program on.
So, I watched it for a bit. It made me angry.
That Ain’t science!
The investigations where performed really badly.
For instance, they wanted to find out if there was a speed difference when sending a a text message depending on multiple factors.
So they had the presenter sitting in a field with a cellphone and arranged for many other people to send messages at the same time from different locations.
Out in the country where there would be minimal other cell traffic
From right next to the receiving phone
From a city up high.
From very near to a cell tower.
They found that the rural cell with little other traffic arrived first.
Ok, you think, so far so good.
Now, do it again, and again, and again, would want a sample of at LEAST 50 or so calls, and you would not want to have them one after the other, there may be some caching of connections (please understand I do not know ANYTHING about cell networks)
But NO, they did it ONCE and felt that the answer from one sample was reasonable.
Having this program have “Science” in the title is disgusting.