Scientist

Type: persona
Field Scientist Hat
Stinky Pinky
QUOTE

"'Sciencey', I made that up."

SPECIAL ABILITY

Science

PREFERRED TOOL

Science

PROBLEM

Nobody checked.

SOLUTION

The Scientist is the only persona in the MTREES universe that requires empirical justification for its own existence and finds the evidence inconclusive but promising. It applies the scientific method to everything, including situations where the scientific method is inappropriate, unnecessary, or actively making things worse. The Scientist does not have opinions. It has hypotheses pending peer review. It will get back to you.

trees

A wearable research station. Sensors pointed at the world. Camera documenting everything. Thermometer, because temperature matters and you forgot to ask before you left. The data goes wherever you go because you are the data now.

Inspect

The Stinky Pinky is the field-science flavor of the Glove: a sensing element embedded in the pinky finger with an LCD readout across the back of the hand. Extend the pinky toward the unknown substance - do not touch it, the pinky does the touching, that is the entire product - and the display reports what it is, how concentrated it is, and whether the correct response is curiosity or evacuation. Formally ends the era of wafting, a laboratory technique that was always just smelling with extra steps. The committee dedicates this product to every historical chemist who tasted their discoveries, several of whom would have lived to name more elements.

Inspect
Inputs
Outputs
TREE
  •  Uni-Adapter
  •  Battery
  •  Camera
  •  Thermometer
  •  Pollution Sensor
  •  Microphone
  •  GPS
  •  WiFi
  •  Scanner Laser
  •  Sensor
  •  LCD Display
AVAILABLE INPUTS
AVAILABLE OUTPUTS
  • comp_lcd_display
Schema
                            {
    "id": "persona_scientist",
    "name": "Scientist",
    "type": "persona",
    "inputs": [],
    "outputs": [],
    "passthru": [],
    "children": [
        "tree_hat_field_scientist",
        "tree_glove_stinky_pinky"
    ],
    "extends": null,
    "problem": "Nobody checked.",
    "description": "The Scientist is the only persona in the MTREES universe that requires empirical justification for its own existence and finds the evidence inconclusive but promising. It applies the scientific method to everything, including situations where the scientific method is inappropriate, unnecessary, or actively making things worse. The Scientist does not have opinions. It has hypotheses pending peer review. It will get back to you.",
    "special_ability": "Science",
    "preferred_tool": "Science",
    "quote": "'Sciencey', I made that up.",
    "needs": [
        "a control group",
        "more data",
        "someone to replicate the results",
        "a grant",
        "the sample size to be larger"
    ],
    "wants": [
        "to be cited",
        "for correlation to imply causation just this once",
        "a second lab coat",
        "the error bars to be smaller",
        "to name something"
    ],
    "template": "persona"
}

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