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> It looks like they only looked at abstracts. From the text: "We then validated abstract readability against full text readability, demonstrating that it is a
by jlg23 9y ago
> It looks like they only looked at abstracts.
From the text: "We then validated abstract readability against full text readability, demonstrating that it is a suitable approximation for comparing main texts."
- AstralStorm 9y agoAnd they perpetuate bad science by not saying how they validated it... (Either they just ran the algorithm on some full papers, which is just as worthless, or did "by inspection", which requires additional qualification and exact results they assigned.)