xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research

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The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'

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There is also "We did nothing of value"
- Aka "we applied a standard theory to standard circumstances and got the expected result" - one can argue it does help in a way by providing another dataset although it didn't really accomplish anything it can be useful for student research projects in that field.
  
  No I meant wasting time with useless stuff

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