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I can Google medical terms until I pass out, but that doesn't make me the intended audience for a medical research paper. Besides, I'm not suggesting (or "dema
by epicide 6y ago
I can Google medical terms until I pass out, but that doesn't make me the intended audience for a medical research paper.
Besides, I'm not suggesting (or "demanding") that all articles explicitly state their target audience. Just that this one does a poor job of indicating it.
So I think it's a poor argument when the parent comment (to which I was responding) assumes an exclusive target audience: "not introductory programmers... more experienced programmers".
You could argue that one was supposed to assume that from context. However, I didn't make that assumption whilst reading, so I especially wouldn't expect "introductory programmers" to pick up on that either.
- kragen 6y agoYou can probably understand most medical research papers after reading a few dozen medical Wikipedia articles and taking an introductory stats class. Math and physics research is a little more difficult.