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IFR = "Infection Fatality Ratio" (for those who were unfamiliar with the acronym like me).
by rectang 6y ago
IFR = "Infection Fatality Ratio" (for those who were unfamiliar with the acronym like me).
- tartoran 6y agoI could guess form the text but was about to look it up so thanks for disambiguating the term here. Wish people would add in parens the meaning of the acronym they use at the first occurence in the text then refer to the acronym only.
- guenthert 6y ago> Wish people would add in parens the meaning of the acronym they use at the first occurence I find that style utterly patronizing. For uncommon abbreviations it would be better to introduce them in parenthesis after their meaning is spelled out on first use. The reader gains by looking-up common abbreviations. nature publishes research papers. Those tend to address primarily fellow researchers familiar with the terms.
- rectang 6y agoHN is a generalist forum. People who use specialized acronyms in threads here inconvenience the generalist HN user base. Just as we would expect researchers writing for specialist journals to write for their specialist audience, we should expect HN posters to write for the generalist HN audience.