Avery method

A person who is jobless but somehow has the money to pay for any and everything and is always willing to spend money instead of focusing on getting a job.

I don’t think I’m going into work today I might hit that Avery method

by K juice box February 14, 2026

shymko method

being in a relationship with a popular streamer to boost your own follower count then breaking up with them

sakura breaking up with jason after 100k follows is peak shymko method

by scanna67 February 22, 2026

Buddy method

When you ask for a water cup at a restaurant/establishment and then you get something other than water

I’m gonna use Buddy method at chipotle

by Thorstan February 28, 2026

Walstad method

Method created Diana Walstad to make a self-sustaining ecosystem fish tank

Guy 1: thats a cool Fish tank!

Guy 2: yeah, and I even did the walstad method

by Much_Wowz March 6, 2026

Scientific Method Bias

The mistaken belief that the scientific method, as it is popularly understood (hypothesis, experiment, conclusion), is the only valid path to knowledge and that all other forms of understanding—philosophical reasoning, artistic insight, personal experience—are worthless. It’s a scientistic worldview that fails to recognize that science itself is built on philosophical assumptions (like the existence of an objective reality) that cannot be proven by science.

Example: "He tried to use Scientific Method Bias to argue that the concept of love is meaningless because you can't isolate it in a petri dish."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026

Scientific Method Hegemony

The dominance of a particular understanding of "the scientific method"—usually the hypothesis-experiment-conclusion model of textbook science—as the only legitimate path to reliable knowledge about anything. Under scientific method hegemony, this specific procedure is treated as universally applicable across all domains of inquiry, and any knowledge produced through other means (historical analysis, philosophical reasoning, artistic insight, lived experience) is automatically suspect. It's the assumption that if you can't test it in a lab, you can't really know it—a methodological imperialism that colonizes all other ways of understanding.

Example: "He demanded a double-blind study of whether his girlfriend loved him—scientific method hegemony so complete that he couldn't recognize knowledge gained through relationship as knowledge at all."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

Scientific Method Biases

The collection of biases that distort how the scientific method is understood, applied, and evaluated—not biases within science, but biases about the scientific method itself. These include: treating the method as a rigid, unvarying procedure rather than a flexible set of practices; assuming all sciences use identical methods; believing the method guarantees truth rather than reducing error; mistaking the idealized textbook description for the messy reality of actual scientific practice; and using "the scientific method" as a cudgel to dismiss any inquiry that doesn't match one's narrow conception of it. Scientific Method Biases are the meta-cognitive errors that prevent people from understanding how science actually works.

Scientific Method Biases Example: "He dismissed an entire field as 'unscientific' because it didn't use double-blind randomized controlled trials—his Scientific Method Bias made him mistake one field's methods for the universal template of all science."

by Dumu The Void March 13, 2026