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Thank you for this, that's really great! You are totally right: between the full article and the (often over-hyped) title, there is a sweet spot for a short, hi
by Iv 8y ago
Thank you for this, that's really great! You are totally right: between the full article and the (often over-hyped) title, there is a sweet spot for a short, high signal-to-noise summary. Even the abstract is often too verbose or omit some important shortcomings of the article.
In some subreddits, users receive a lot of karma to do things similar to what you are doing. Usually making:
- a summary of the finding (the abstract in one sentence)
- a summary of the methodology (which often tells if a study is solid or not)
- context to understand if this is a breakthrough, an interesting but unpractical effect, a potentially misleading discovery
These are especially precious in environmental or medical research where one study may seem to say totally different things based on the overall context.