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Scientists Have Studied the Mysterious Behavior of Cats Sitting on Squares (www.vice.com)

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[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Huh. I went and actually read the study, and the actual sample size is very small. 9 cats.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the article mentioned they had a sample size of 500 but not everyone that volunteered completed the experiment, as it was during Covid so they had to send the materials out and rely on “citizen scientists.” A pretty precarious way of conducting a scientific study.