If you think that's how science is done, then you don't know science. They are doing some of the elements needed for a controlled experiment, but overall they are not doing it properly. They published this video instead of a video done after they controlled for temperature and humidity. Think about the reasons for that. I bet the discovered that it didn't reproduce the result they wanted or they just didn't do it at all.
these high school kids are "doing science" better than our government.
Now ask them how many genders there are. Trust the science, right?
temperature and humidity
They have them in the same room. Have you ever grown a seed?
experimentation is science.
They have them in the same room. Have you ever grown a seed?
And this is why you don't get it. The router will generate heat when it is on which will also affect the humidity inside the bucket. They are not growing under the same conditions. We also don't know what changed between the soil, moisture content, seeds or general environment when the second batch was grown.
This is why you don't understand what I'm saying. To you it's all the same conditions and you don't question it. That's not science. That's scientism.
Heat seems like a difficult thing to control for, cuz how are you going to generate radiation constantly without heat? I suppose you could try to heat (more) the other box, too. If they didn't do these experiments simultaneously, that's fucked up. I might change the premise to "does living right next to a WiFi router affect plant growth," because undoubtedly in addition to RF ("radiation") the box is probably giving off some other things as well.
The router being on will definitely produce heat. They should have controlled for the moisture level of the soil at the very least. Also 3 days is not a long enough test.
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