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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) // Biosystems Engineering. Publisher: Elsevier BV. Vol. 115. No 1. Pp. 102–105. DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2013.01.001

Bib

@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}
}

References (1)

1. Statistics Done Wrong (2015) by Alex Reinhart 13 4