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If you want to avoid this, just read the paper. I don't understand why technical people waste their time complaining about this stuff. We all have the acumen t
by josephdviviano 7y ago
If you want to avoid this, just read the paper.
I don't understand why technical people waste their time complaining about this stuff. We all have the acumen to read, understand, and debate research.
- chibg10 7y agoBecause there’s only 24 hours a day? Because my tax dollars are often funding this research? Why not take this farther and just do the research myself, eh?
- gwd 7y ago> I don't understand why technical people waste their time complaining about this stuff. We all have the acumen to read, understand, and debate research. But to be honest, the reason I read the comments (at least on a place like HN) is to get the key insight / failure without reading the article.
- josephdviviano 7y agoWhen scientists disagree among themselves, it's hard to use this strategy.
- moultano 7y agoIt's paywalled. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0095069619301901 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00950... If I had access, I'd try to dig into more depth into how they approached decoupling this from temperature, because that seems like a really strong confounder. I'm also a bit curious about the underlying physical cause of the change in pollution levels, (weekends? summertime?) because that seems like it could also be a confounding common cause. Alas, I'm not interested in paying $35 for the paper.
- imagin8or 7y agoPreprint from the Colorado State website: https://pierce.atmos.colostate.edu/Monthly_Pollution_and_Crime.pdf https://pierce.atmos.colostate.edu/Monthly_Pollution_and_Cri...
- moultano 7y agoThanks!
- anigbrowl 7y agoJust use SciHub like everyone else. Even if it's not up on SciHub the Supplementary MAterials are usually available free.
- BurningFrog 7y agoReading scientific papers uses less time than complaining about them? Is there a study to back that up? :)