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AI photography is so stupid. That target's got legs. Handsome ones, too.
- That's just the new range staffer holding the target. Materials are expensive with the tariffs and all, so you gotta cut costs somewhere.
  
  That's the intern not a staffer. Kind of you to assume they are people.
- Looks realistic to me!
- Also they all hold the bows completely wrong.
  Angled arm, turned the wrong side, wtf?
- Surely it'd be easy to just find an actual stock photo to use here. But it doesn't matter because the background just needed to be Whatever.
  That write-up is well worth the read.
  
  On your advice, I read it. Good essay. Yes, the image is Whatever, but the creative part for this post was the pun, so I still gave it an upvote because I haven't heard it death.
Am I missing a joke?
- Placebo <=> plus c bow
  
  ohh, tanks!
- The joke is they failed to isolate the variable
Image: Bad AI.
Text: Bad AI.
Source: Bad AI.
Neither the name of the effect nor the story turn up any results on google.
This is not a science meme, but instead a "My first AI meme".
- Image: Bad AI (true)
  Text: I'll bet it's written by a human.
  Source: It's a joke!
  See other comments if you missed it
- You missed the pun.
  
  Fair.
- Lemmy users not crying about AI challenge: impossible
  
  Lemmy users crying about AI seems to be as common as AI users calling themselves creative. I wonder if there’s a correlation?
I am astounded how many commenters don't seem to get the pun
- It got reports for it. 🥹
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If the second group performed "far better" than the first group then this isn't regression to the mean, is it? I would expect the gap to be much less or even eliminated but for the Plus C Bow group to do much better there should be something else at play, right?
- Yeah, plus the selection process was weird. Any gains attributed to the plus-C bow group just throws question to the initial rankings.
  They should have done a crossover trial, where group A is a random selection of archers initially getting no C bows, and then later getting them, and vice versa for group B. Paired t-tests, y'all!
  
  Yeah, but the meme is a joke about how you can prove anything with regression to the mean. If all archers are equally good and we test them we would get varying results. If we then split them on performance and perform an intervention and test again then the "poor performing" group will do much better. Because it's just random noise.
Placebo hellowa drug.
- Yeah, so much so that people believe this meme is reality, even though google turns up not a single result for "plus c bow effect" that has anything to do with archery. Neither does any google search on the story.
  The whole post is placebo, aka pure AI slop.
So bad that it is good again.
Confusing-ass perspective. It looks like all the archers are standing with their left foot forward and holding the bow in their right hand.
It works!