Sheared fur pullovers looked as if the patterns of trees and flowers had been engraved.
Follow-up work showed that they only have this ability if the patterns conform to possible positions in a legal game of chess.
But these results taken in the context of 38 previous weeks of interviews (and 38,000 other cases) give us more confidence when interpreting the data, particularly if the patterns look similar.
If the patterns don't match, or there are multiple patterns, it suggests tampering.
"If the patterns continue, we will see some loss of genetic diversity," Hamrick says.
Finally, one may wonder if the patterns of phone usage are efficient in a collaborative scheme.
The mapping of patterns of urban heat stress over a city is not useful if the patterns depicted apply only to the time of data acquisition.
If the patterns or scales of human actions change, then the constraints change, and the structure and dynamics of the entire socio-ecological system (SES) can change accordingly.
If the patterns described above apply to ICST then, portrayals of offenders as highly sophisticated and organised are likely to be inaccurate.
It is of interest to see, if the patterns, as observed by Hilger et al. (2015) emerge in global maps of productivity.
The university investigators also randomly picked four other articles from the journals Smeesters published in "to see if the patterns found by Simonsohn surface with other, randomly selected authors," and they did not find similar irregularities.
