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Having a good story isn't about hiding the faults in your work, it's about making your work accessible to others. It's no good having tons of experiments if you
by gradstudent 7y ago
Having a good story isn't about hiding the faults in your work, it's about making your work accessible to others. It's no good having tons of experiments if you can't explain what they mean and why anyone else should care.
- joshspankit 7y agoYou’ve assumed the end goal of having the work be accessible. The person you’re replying to has a different goal of paper acceptances or citations.
- skummetmaelk 7y agoWhile that is true, the problem is that bad science is easily masked by telling a good story. When telling the story is more important than the science itself, you end up with more and more extravagant projects that always end in failure to achieve anything close to what was written in the grant application.