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TL; DR: uncurated social media is used to critisize scientific peer-reviewed publications in psychology. This hurts scientists (peer reputation / society reputa
by ptero 10y ago
TL; DR: uncurated social media is used to critisize scientific peer-reviewed publications in psychology. This hurts scientists (peer reputation / society reputation?).
IMO this is not specific to psychology: climate change, biology, computer science, physics, etc. research is exposed to the same phenomena. The hotter the topic, the bigger the flames get.
However, if publication is clear about methodology, data collection and conclusions those flames do not hurt -- the published work stands on its own and anyone can go back to it as a sanity check on whether accusations have merit. If I disagree on methodology I will not think worse about the author. However, if I suspect he manipulated the data I will; and real quick.
Being clear on what was done is, IMO, a practically foolproof way of protecting your reputation. Researchers unnecessarily making publications readable to only a tiny minority of field experts (sometimes hoping to minimize criticism -- "I just need this published; and 3 more for a postdoc") or being vague about how they collected data shoot themselves in the foot. And this, IMO, is a major source of self inflicted wounds that are most frequent in the fuzzier fields like psychology.
- Noseshine 10y agoThis "TL;DR" is very misleading, even wrong! Source: I actually read the whole article and much of the discussion. Instead of looking for an TL;DR, this time I suggest actually reading it. I would say it's well worth it.
- lobo_tuerto 10y agoWell this comment isn't really helpful too. I'm intrigued. I haven't read the whole article, but if I did and say something like you did I would explain myself. If it's very misleading, even wrong why don't you expose your reasons?
- Noseshine 10y ago> Well this comment isn't really helpful too. I would claim it is: My only reason to make it was to prevent people from going away with that TL;DR. I don't want to make one myself, because why not just click on the link and read the article? The comment is not a summary of that article at all, that is all. This is a complex subject and details matter very much. I don't think it is healthy to have people get only a caricature of the whole thing. I also recommend reading at least some of the many comments, and even to follow some of the links provided there. For example, I found this one in the comments and I've just reached the comment section: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
- raldi 10y ago> TL;DR. I don't want to make one myself, because why not just click on the link and read the article? There's an essentially infinite amount of information out there on the internet, and people have a finite amount of free time; thus, many of us try to glean the thesis of an article before committing an hour to reading it -- particularly slow readers and non-native English speakers. Especially in articles like this one, with a vague headline, no pull quotes, section titles that are too symbolic to actually describe the sections they head, and a break from the convention of using the opening paragraphs to provide a summary of what's to come, a TLDR comment is greatly appreciated to give a potential reader at least some clue what it's about. TLDR: You oppose TLDR comments because you feel they keep people from reading the full article, but in cases like this, the lack of one is doing so.
- jmiserez 10y agoI agree, having read the article myself. A very broad TLDR would be that the article takes an article with the parent commentator's TLDR, and refutes it while providing insights into why the the original author might have written it in the first place. So go ahead and actually read the article!
- harpiaharpyja 10y agoThat is a TL; DR of an article to which this article is a rebuttal to. Your TL; DR thus omits literally the entire content of what the author has written. Please read the article through before you make a TL; DR. It's well worth the read in any case.
- CPLX 10y agoThis is a digression, but maybe one day someone will satisfactorily explain to me why the lovely and understandable term "summary" was replaced by the ugly and unpronounceable term "TL;DR"