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Sometimes new policies get implemented but it kind of wallows as far as be enforced and it takes time for people to catch up. I\'ve just found out myself that DidNotDoTheResearch is now explicitly an index and not a trope, thus it should never be used as a trope regardless if people can\'t find a trope that applies to their particular example. I\'ve moved it all here so others can try and preserve the information by using a more appropriate trope. Also I feel that if any tropes are tested the results of the test (whether retested or the results are argued by the fans) should be listed on the trope example rather than a generic DNDTR page. For instance, the retest of ScopeSnipe should be noted on that page.
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Sometimes new policies get implemented but it kind of wallows as far as be enforced and it takes time for people to catch up. I\\\'ve just found out myself that DidNotDoTheResearch is now explicitly an index and not a trope, thus it should never be used as a trope regardless if people can\\\'t find a trope that applies to their particular example. I\\\'ve moved it all here so others can try and preserve the information by using a more appropriate trope. Also I feel that if any tropes are tested the results of the test (whether retested or the results are argued by the fans) should be listed on the trope example rather than a generic DNDTR page. For instance, the retest of ScopeSnipe should be noted on that example.
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** Concluding that ancient stone arrowheads and sharpened sticks don\'t have enough of a difference in lethality to make the effort of making the former worth it... while ignoring the rather obvious factor of \'\'distance\'\'. (The same factor that somehow baffled them in \
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** Concluding that ancient stone arrowheads and sharpened sticks don\\\'t have enough of a difference in lethality to make the effort of making the former worth it... while ignoring the rather obvious factor of \\\'\\\'distance\\\'\\\'. (The same factor that somehow baffled them in \\\"Helium Football\\\")
*** Actually, the conclusion they reached was that they couldn\\\'t find any advantage to either.
**** The Stone arrowheads were \\\'slightly\\\' better. The main issue was that a sharpened stick will fully decay over time, while a stone arrowhead will not. So we know they used stone arrowheads back then, but have no idea what the proportion of Stone-to-Wood was.
** Busting the idea of someone catching an arrow in flight due to no human having the reaction time needed, while testing from point blank range instead of the distance at which someone would realistically be shot at, and using a much more powerful modern compound bow instead of a more period appropriate design (the myth was specifically about ancient Japanese ninjas being able to do it, and it ended up still being busted).
*** However, they did test someone attempting to catch an arrow shot at less than full power from a modern bow. The catcher was able to do it. They concluded that while it may be -possible- to catch an arrow, that was NOT the point of the myth. The point of the myth was catching an arrow in the middle of battle. And given the specific conditions that someone would be in to catch it, they may as well simply move to the side.
** Fortunately, the Mythbusters are GenreSavvy enough to anticipate this, and welcome revisits of their older experiments, with the new information (or complaints) their fans give them; some results have actually been overturned, as a result.
*** They\\\'ve even tested a complaint that viewers had regarding a misleading statement Jamie made about Newtonian physics. [[hottip:*:During the test of the \\\"Compact Compact\\\", Jamie claimed that two cars going 50 mph that hit each other in a head-on collision would be equivalent to a single car hitting a stationary wall at 100 mph. While \\\'\\\'[[JediTruth somewhat]]\\\'\\\' true in that the impact has twice as much energy being released, that energy is spread out evenly between the two cars, so the resulting damage to both cars would still be equivalent to hitting a wall at \\\'\\\'50\\\'\\\' mph.]]
** An odd one when they tested a myth from \\\'\\\'BurnNotice\\\'\\\': they test a car being bulletproofed with phone books and insist it\\\'s busted as it didn\\\'t stop a shotgun or an assault rifle... but the show itself says that one layer of phonebooks won\\\'t stop a shotgun or an assault rifle. It seems odd they missed that part.
*** Actually, the conclusion they reached was that they couldn\\\'t find any advantage to either.
**** The Stone arrowheads were \\\'slightly\\\' better. The main issue was that a sharpened stick will fully decay over time, while a stone arrowhead will not. So we know they used stone arrowheads back then, but have no idea what the proportion of Stone-to-Wood was.
** Busting the idea of someone catching an arrow in flight due to no human having the reaction time needed, while testing from point blank range instead of the distance at which someone would realistically be shot at, and using a much more powerful modern compound bow instead of a more period appropriate design (the myth was specifically about ancient Japanese ninjas being able to do it, and it ended up still being busted).
*** However, they did test someone attempting to catch an arrow shot at less than full power from a modern bow. The catcher was able to do it. They concluded that while it may be -possible- to catch an arrow, that was NOT the point of the myth. The point of the myth was catching an arrow in the middle of battle. And given the specific conditions that someone would be in to catch it, they may as well simply move to the side.
** Fortunately, the Mythbusters are GenreSavvy enough to anticipate this, and welcome revisits of their older experiments, with the new information (or complaints) their fans give them; some results have actually been overturned, as a result.
*** They\\\'ve even tested a complaint that viewers had regarding a misleading statement Jamie made about Newtonian physics. [[hottip:*:During the test of the \\\"Compact Compact\\\", Jamie claimed that two cars going 50 mph that hit each other in a head-on collision would be equivalent to a single car hitting a stationary wall at 100 mph. While \\\'\\\'[[JediTruth somewhat]]\\\'\\\' true in that the impact has twice as much energy being released, that energy is spread out evenly between the two cars, so the resulting damage to both cars would still be equivalent to hitting a wall at \\\'\\\'50\\\'\\\' mph.]]
** An odd one when they tested a myth from \\\'\\\'BurnNotice\\\'\\\': they test a car being bulletproofed with phone books and insist it\\\'s busted as it didn\\\'t stop a shotgun or an assault rifle... but the show itself says that one layer of phonebooks won\\\'t stop a shotgun or an assault rifle. It seems odd they missed that part.
