Evaluation of watermelons texture using their vibration responses
Fabulous research! Four scientists took 43 watermelons (Crimson sweet), measured their vibration response, rated them using a five-point ripeness scale, built a regression model to predict ripeness from vibration response, checked the model on the same 43 watermelons, got R² = 0.9998, published the results in a peer-reviewed journal.
Debunked in Statistics Done Wrong.
Reference
Rouzbeh Abbaszadeh, Ali Rajabipour, Mohammad Mahjoob, Mojtaba Delshad, Hojjat Ahmadi “Evaluation of watermelons texture using their vibration responses” (2013) DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.01.001
@Article{abbaszadeh2013,
title = {Evaluation of watermelons texture using their vibration responses},
volume = {115},
issn = {1537-5110},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.01.001},
doi = {10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.01.001},
number = {1},
journal = {Biosystems Engineering},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
author = {Abbaszadeh, Rouzbeh and Rajabipour, Ali and Mahjoob, Mohammad and Delshad, Mojtaba and Ahmadi, Hojjat},
year = {2013},
month = {may},
pages = {102–105}
}